Personnel Today
  • Home
    • All PT content
  • Email sign-up
  • Topics
    • HR Practice
    • Employee relations
    • Learning & training
    • Pay & benefits
    • Wellbeing
    • Recruitment & retention
    • HR strategy
    • HR Tech
    • The HR profession
    • Global
    • All HR topics
  • Legal
    • Case law
    • Commentary
    • Flexible working
    • Legal timetable
    • Maternity & paternity
    • Shared parental leave
    • Redundancy
    • TUPE
    • Disciplinary and grievances
    • Employer’s guides
  • AWARDS
    • Personnel Today Awards
    • The RAD Awards
  • Jobs
    • Find a job
    • Jobs by email
    • Careers advice
    • Post a job
  • Brightmine
    • Learn more
    • Products
    • Free trial
    • Request a quote
  • Webinars
  • Advertise
  • OHW+

Personnel Today

Register
Log in
Personnel Today
  • Home
    • All PT content
  • Email sign-up
  • Topics
    • HR Practice
    • Employee relations
    • Learning & training
    • Pay & benefits
    • Wellbeing
    • Recruitment & retention
    • HR strategy
    • HR Tech
    • The HR profession
    • Global
    • All HR topics
  • Legal
    • Case law
    • Commentary
    • Flexible working
    • Legal timetable
    • Maternity & paternity
    • Shared parental leave
    • Redundancy
    • TUPE
    • Disciplinary and grievances
    • Employer’s guides
  • AWARDS
    • Personnel Today Awards
    • The RAD Awards
  • Jobs
    • Find a job
    • Jobs by email
    • Careers advice
    • Post a job
  • Brightmine
    • Learn more
    • Products
    • Free trial
    • Request a quote
  • Webinars
  • Advertise
  • OHW+

Author

Greg Pitcher

Greg Pitcher

    • Latest News
    • Wellbeing
    • Occupational Health

    Minister admits ‘fit for work’ recommendation of Black Review is on the agenda

    by Greg Pitcher 15 May 2008
    by Greg Pitcher 15 May 2008

    The government is already looking into the feasibility of piloting a ‘fit for work’ service, one of the key planks...

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Latest News
    • Family-friendly working

    Government to extend flexible working rights to staff with children up to age of 16

    by Greg Pitcher 15 May 2008
    by Greg Pitcher 15 May 2008

    The government has announced that the right to request flexible working will be extended to staff with children up to...

    • Business performance
    • Employee relations
    • Employee communications

    Shared services in public sector fails to make headway owing to workforce opposition

    by Greg Pitcher 14 May 2008
    by Greg Pitcher 14 May 2008

    Lack of communication with staff is preventing public sector employers from making their HR departments more efficient, the local government...

    • Early careers
    • Latest News
    • Recruitment & retention

    IT careers get the overwhelming thumbs-up from workers in the industry

    by Greg Pitcher 13 May 2008
    by Greg Pitcher 13 May 2008

    Three in four IT workers would recommend the career to their children, according to a poll.
    A survey of 956...

    • Employee relations
    • Latest News
    • Industrial action / strikes

    RMT strike vote: Network Rail HR chief asks employees to consider offers

    by Greg Pitcher 13 May 2008
    by Greg Pitcher 13 May 2008

    Network Rail HR director Peter Bennett has called for the firm’s employees to “consider carefully” before voting for national strikes...

    • Absence
    • Latest News
    • HR practice

    Lie detectors to be used to detect genuine sickness absence

    by Greg Pitcher 12 May 2008
    by Greg Pitcher 12 May 2008

    EXCLUSIVE
    Lie detectors could soon be used to deter workers from ‘pulling sickies’, after the government hailed trials of the...

    • Latest News
    • HR strategy
    • Pay & benefits

    Pension buyout market boom expected as firms shed responsibility for pensioners

    by Greg Pitcher 8 May 2008
    by Greg Pitcher 8 May 2008

    Ten companies listed on the FTSE 100 are actively considering pension buyouts as the credit crunch makes passing off retirement...

    • Apprenticeships
    • Latest News
    • Learning & development

    British Energy signs £10m deal with Flagship Training

    by Greg Pitcher 6 May 2008
    by Greg Pitcher 6 May 2008

    British Energy has signed a £10m deal with the Royal Navy’s training provider to torpedo the UK’s nuclear skills crisis.Flagship...

    • Health and safety
    • Latest News
    • HR practice

    HR given task of ensuring lessons are learned from disasters

    by Greg Pitcher 2 May 2008
    by Greg Pitcher 2 May 2008

    Health and Safety Executive chair Judith Hackitt has called on HR professionals to ensure lessons learned from disasters such as...

    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business
    • HR strategy

    British Energy chief tasks HR with the job of finding staff for new nuclear plants

    by Greg Pitcher 2 May 2008
    by Greg Pitcher 2 May 2008

    British Energy chief executive Bill Coley has placed his HR team at the heart of the company’s bid to provide...

    • Latest News

    Italy rocked by income scandal as pay details for every citizen appear online

    by Greg Pitcher 1 May 2008
    by Greg Pitcher 1 May 2008

    The income of every Italian citizen was published on the internet yesterday by the country’s outgoing government.Curious, excited and maddened...

    • Police
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Latest News

    Opportunity Now award goes to MoD police agency chief Wendy Benson

    by Greg Pitcher 1 May 2008
    by Greg Pitcher 1 May 2008

    Police and Guarding Agency chief superintendent Wendy Benson scooped the Champion Award at the Opportunity Now Awards in London last...

    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business
    • Distance learning

    IT companies look to fill vacancies with recruits from diverse backgrounds

    by Greg Pitcher 1 May 2008
    by Greg Pitcher 1 May 2008

    IT firms are increasingly turning to career changers to fill vacancies, according to a training provider.Computeach has placed its 100th...

    • Business performance
    • Agency workers
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion

    Skills and temp rights are main cause for concern so far in 2008

    by Greg Pitcher 30 Apr 2008
    by Greg Pitcher 30 Apr 2008

    We may be just four months in to 2008, but already there have been plenty of flashpoints for the HR...

    • Latest News
    • Health and safety
    • Department for Work and Pensions

    HR is vital to reduce health and safety disasters warns work and pensions secretary

    by Greg Pitcher 30 Apr 2008
    by Greg Pitcher 30 Apr 2008

    Work and pensions secretary James Purnell has warned chief executives that good people management is vital to avoid disasters such...

Newer Posts
Older Posts

  • Empowering working parents and productivity during the summer holidays SPONSORED | Businesses play a...Read more
  • AI is here. Your workforce should be ready. SPONSORED | From content creation...Read more

Personnel Today Jobs
 

Search Jobs

PERSONNEL TODAY

About us
Contact us
Browse all HR topics
Email newsletters
Content feeds
Cookies policy
Privacy policy
Terms and conditions

JOBS

Personnel Today Jobs
Post a job
Why advertise with us?

EVENTS & PRODUCTS

The Personnel Today Awards
The RAD Awards
Employee Benefits
Forum for Expatriate Management
OHW+
Whatmedia

ADVERTISING & PR

Advertising opportunities
Features list 2025

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Linkedin


© 2011 - 2025 DVV Media International Ltd

Personnel Today
  • Home
    • All PT content
  • Email sign-up
  • Topics
    • HR Practice
    • Employee relations
    • Learning & training
    • Pay & benefits
    • Wellbeing
    • Recruitment & retention
    • HR strategy
    • HR Tech
    • The HR profession
    • Global
    • All HR topics
  • Legal
    • Case law
    • Commentary
    • Flexible working
    • Legal timetable
    • Maternity & paternity
    • Shared parental leave
    • Redundancy
    • TUPE
    • Disciplinary and grievances
    • Employer’s guides
  • AWARDS
    • Personnel Today Awards
    • The RAD Awards
  • Jobs
    • Find a job
    • Jobs by email
    • Careers advice
    • Post a job
  • Brightmine
    • Learn more
    • Products
    • Free trial
    • Request a quote
  • Webinars
  • Advertise
  • OHW+