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    • HR Technology

    CIPD HR Software Show delegates hear how to tackle absence

    by John Charlton 22 Jun 2012
    by John Charlton 22 Jun 2012

    At the CIPD HR Software Show, HR manager Rosie Green engaged her audience with a talk on how her organisation...

    • HR strategy
    • HR Technology

    How can shared services provide better value?

    by John Charlton 15 Mar 2012
    by John Charlton 15 Mar 2012

    A report from the National Audit Office shows that shared back-office services may not be delivering all the benefits that ...

    • HR practice
    • HR Technology

    HR grapples concept of cloud computing

    by John Charlton 1 Jul 2010
    by John Charlton 1 Jul 2010

    Looking to buy HR Software?Use our Smart Buyer guide…

    BEFORE YOU BUYPlanning your HR software purchase

    How to measure ROI...

    • Employee relations
    • Employment law
    • Trade unions

    Time off for union activities – employee rights

    by John Charlton 9 Mar 2010
    by John Charlton 9 Mar 2010

    Gaining from trainingTrade union reps involved in collective bargaining have a right to paid time off to attend appropriate union...

    • Childcare
    • Pay & benefits

    Childcare vouchers: Relief is more than a taxing matter

    by John Charlton 3 Dec 2009
    by John Charlton 3 Dec 2009

    Two months on from the shock announcement that tax relief on childcare vouchers would be phased out from 2011, what...

    • Latest News
    • Executive pay
    • Pay & benefits

    Half of company directors have had pay cut or frozen

    by John Charlton 2 Dec 2009
    by John Charlton 2 Dec 2009

    of executive directors have taken a pay cut in 2009 by John Charlton Almost half of executive directors have had their pay frozen in 2009, while...

    • Auto-enrolment
    • Latest News
    • Pay & benefits

    Pensions dark age to hit the UK

    by John Charlton 2 Dec 2009
    by John Charlton 2 Dec 2009

    The UK is heading for a pensions dark age, according to insurance company AXA.It said that 64% of UK workers...

    • Auto-enrolment
    • Latest News
    • Pay & benefits

    Recruitment agencies need common auto-enrolment date

    by John Charlton 2 Dec 2009
    by John Charlton 2 Dec 2009

    The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) has called on the government to agree a common date on which all recruitment...

    • Childcare
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    • Pay & benefits

    Childcare tax relief decision unlikely to be reversed by Tories and Lib Dems

    by John Charlton 2 Dec 2009
    by John Charlton 2 Dec 2009

    If the government does abolish tax relief on childcare vouchers, it is unlikely that the main opposition parties would bring...

    • Employment law
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion

    European Commission raps UK over anti-discrimination laws

    by John Charlton 1 Dec 2009
    by John Charlton 1 Dec 2009

    Anti-discrimination laws in the UK aren’t up to scratch, said the European Commission (EC), which has begun legal action against...

    • Employment law
    • Unfair dismissal

    Sailor’s unfair dismissal case falls within UK jurisdiction, rules court

    by John Charlton 19 Nov 2009
    by John Charlton 19 Nov 2009

    A shipping company has failed in its bid to secure a ruling that an unfair dismissal claim from a former...

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Race discrimination

    Abbey National £2.8m race discrimination award to be reconsidered

    by John Charlton 18 Nov 2009
    by John Charlton 18 Nov 2009

    In what has been called “a very welcome decision for employers”, the Court of Appeal has sent a £2.8m race...

    • Employment law
    • TUPE

    TUPE duty to inform breached by administrators

    by John Charlton 11 Nov 2009
    by John Charlton 11 Nov 2009

    Four managers who lost their jobs after a home shopping company collapsed have won about £190,000 in total in damages...

    • Employment law
    • Employment tribunals

    Editor’s comment

    by John Charlton 9 Nov 2009
    by John Charlton 9 Nov 2009

    When commercial landlord Grainger created the post of ‘head of sustainability’, little could it have guessed the chain of events that...

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Disability

    Volunteers are not protected by the Disability Discrimination Act

    by John Charlton 6 Nov 2009
    by John Charlton 6 Nov 2009

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has ruled that volunteers are not protected by the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA), as they...

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