Usdaw is seeking urgent talks with Primark after it announced it is to buy 120 Littlewoods stores across the UK.
HR strategy
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The public sector is leaving private concerns in its wake when it comes to sickness absence.
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Continuity plans meant the terrorist attack had little impact on City business.
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Matalan to cut jobs in bid to save £15m.
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Bradford Council signed an IT outsourcing agreement with IBM after assuring staff their jobs were not at risk.
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A Morrisons superstore in Scotland is the latest to adopt the Usdaw union's 'lifelong learning' programme.
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BT expands alliance with Accenture by signing a business processing outsourcing deal.
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Blunkett sets agenda for UK's presidency of EU with call for workplace reform.
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Nearly three-quarters of employers are seeing the benefits of dress-down days in the workplace.
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Most HR professionals back creation of human capital officer to ensure people data gets measured.
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Skills shortages in Indian call centres serving the UK have led to a call for UK talent to be exported.
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On the front cover of Sainsbury's annual report, published last month, the supermarket chain asks: "What will it take to make Sainsbury's great again?". It is this question that has dominated the progress of the retailer since the trauma of being overtaken by Tesco a decade ago
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Construction firm Laing O'Rourke is to set up a training academy to address the chronic skills shortages in the building industry
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Managing directors of small- and medium-sized companies would rather take charge of HR themselves than appoint an HR director or outsource to a third party, research reveals
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The origins of human capital management lie in the realisation that investing in people yields greater profit than machines