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    • Employee engagement
    • HR practice
    • HR strategy

    Job dissatisfaction rockets due to bad management

    by Beth Holmes 22 Nov 2012
    by Beth Holmes 22 Nov 2012

    One-third of UK employees are looking for new roles because they are unhappy at work and almost nine in 10 do...

    • Latest News
    • Pay & benefits
    • Living Wage

    Miliband reveals living wage proposals

    by Beth Holmes 5 Nov 2012
    by Beth Holmes 5 Nov 2012

    Opposition leader Ed Miliband has unveiled plans that would give millions of workers a “living wage” of at least £7.45...

    • Early careers
    • Economics, government & business
    • Department for Work and Pensions

    Welfare to work: a bad experience?

    by Beth Holmes 28 Feb 2012
    by Beth Holmes 28 Feb 2012

    The furore over the Government’s welfare-to-work programme reached a new high at the end of last week when Emma Harrison,...

    • HR practice
    • Ex-offenders
    • Recruitment & retention

    Majority of employers willing to hire ex-offenders

    by Beth Holmes 9 Nov 2011
    by Beth Holmes 9 Nov 2011

    More than half of employers believe that they have an important role to play in helping ex-offenders back into the workplace,...

    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business
    • Job creation and losses

    Fewer workers leaving jobs as downturn bites

    by Beth Holmes 9 Nov 2011
    by Beth Holmes 9 Nov 2011

    The number of people leaving their main job has almost halved over the last 13 years, suggesting that the labour...

    • Absence
    • HR practice

    Extended drinking hours fuel absenteesim

    by Beth Holmes 25 Oct 2011
    by Beth Holmes 25 Oct 2011

    Longer drinking hours in England and Wales have led to more than 660,000 extra days of absence from work every...

    • Early careers
    • Latest News
    • Expenses

    Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt criticised for recruiting unpaid interns

    by Beth Holmes 24 Oct 2011
    by Beth Holmes 24 Oct 2011

    Cabinet minister Jeremy Hunt has been pilloried by campaigners after advertising for unpaid interns.The culture secretary was found to be...

    • Latest News
    • Pay & benefits
    • Pensions

    HR leads push to outsource pensions administration

    by Beth Holmes 24 Oct 2011
    by Beth Holmes 24 Oct 2011

    HR managers are more interested in outsourcing pensions functions following the closure of defined benefit schemes, according to research published...

    • Latest News
    • Pay & benefits
    • Pensions

    Government and unions’ judicial review battle begins over CPI pensions change

    by Beth Holmes 24 Oct 2011
    by Beth Holmes 24 Oct 2011

    The UK’s largest public sector unions will open up a legal front tomorrow in their continuing row with the Government...

    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business

    CBI urges help for ‘forgotten army’ of mid-sized businesses

    by Beth Holmes 24 Oct 2011
    by Beth Holmes 24 Oct 2011

    The CBI has called on the Government to help unlock the potential boost to the economy from the UK’s “forgotten...

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    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Race discrimination

    Caste discrimination under scrutiny

    by Beth Holmes 27 Sep 2011
    by Beth Holmes 27 Sep 2011

    A landmark employment tribunal case, and now a recommendation from the United Nations, is increasing pressure on the Government to...

    • Latest News
    • Executive pay
    • Pay & benefits

    Executive pay rising faster than for other employees

    by Beth Holmes 14 Sep 2011
    by Beth Holmes 14 Sep 2011

    Executive directors have seen pay rises above the level set for other employees, sparking concerns that the gap between pay...

    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business
    • Job creation and losses

    Jobs crisis as unemployment passes 2.5 million

    by Beth Holmes 14 Sep 2011
    by Beth Holmes 14 Sep 2011

    The UK has seen its biggest rise in unemployment for two years, increasing by 80,000 in the three months to July,...

    • Absence
    • Latest News
    • HR practice

    Line manager training reduces absence rates

    by Beth Holmes 14 Sep 2011
    by Beth Holmes 14 Sep 2011

    Employers that targeted line managers for absence management training saw improved absence rates at two-thirds (64%) of organisations, according to...

    • Employee relations
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Trade unions

    Unions recruiting more minority workers

    by Beth Holmes 13 Sep 2011
    by Beth Holmes 13 Sep 2011

    Unions are ramping up efforts to recruit minority workers, according to the TUC Equality Audit published this week.The audit, conducted every two...

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