Conservative leader David Cameron has angered trade unions by revealing that cutting back on public sector defined benefit pension schemes...
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Agency Workers Directive to add 10% to cost of filling short-term vacancies
by Greg Pitcherby Greg PitcherOne in two recruitment agencies believes the Agency Workers Directive will add 10% to the cost of filling a temporary...
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Purnell defends government snub for employee health and wellbeing reforms
by Greg Pitcherby Greg PitcherWork and pensions secretary James Purnell has defended the government’s watered-down response to the Dame Carol Black review of employee...
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Chancellor Alistair Darling has announced a £1bn Small Business Finance Scheme to ease the effects of the credit crunch on...
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The ghost of Christmas redundancies is looming large across the UK, according to a Personneltoday.com poll.Of 198 respondents to the...
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Social workers at a Scottish council have been disciplined for circulating a doctored image of disgraced former rock star Gary...
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Bradford & Bingley’s chairman last week gave a glowing review of the crisis-hit bank’s people culture.Richard Pym told MPs on...
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A record number of sacked government workers successfully overturned their dismissals last year, with total compensation breaking the £1m barrier...
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B&B bonus defended by former chairman as new boss eyes £326,000 top up
by Greg Pitcherby Greg PitcherThe man in charge of Bradford & Bingley when it was nationalised in September was yesterday forced to defend the...
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More than 2,000 UK jobs could be on the line as US banking giant Citigroup looks to axe 52,000 jobs.A...
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A landmark tribunal ruling has paved the way for unfairly sacked employees to claim for loss of future earnings even...
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The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) has hired two senior HR professionals from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA).The...
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A dire warning about the depth of the economic crisis was sounded by the CBI this morning.The business group predicted...
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A legal expert has provoked fury by advising employers to make redundancies on Christmas Eve.Mark Bestley, partner at Cheshire law...
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Commentators have rushed to defend the HR profession after a damning poll showed that just a third of employees believed...