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    • Employee relations
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    • France

    Workers could turn violent, employers warned

    by Kat Baker 3 Apr 2009
    by Kat Baker 3 Apr 2009

    Angry workers who believe companies are not doing enough to support them during the recession could increasingly resort to staging...

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

    More HR jobs set to go at Sony Ericsson

    by Kat Baker 2 Apr 2009
    by Kat Baker 2 Apr 2009

    More HR jobs are set to be axed at Sony Ericsson, Personnel Today has learned.Michael Chivers, the vice-president of HR,...

    • Agency workers
    • Employment law
    • Health and safety

    Migrants ‘twice as likely to be killed at work’

    by Kat Baker 1 Apr 2009
    by Kat Baker 1 Apr 2009

    Migrant workers employed in the construction industry are twice as likely to die at work compared to their British counterparts,...

    • Employment law
    • Shared parental leave
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion

    Extended parental leave ‘will cause headache for HR’ warns CBI

    by Kat Baker 31 Mar 2009
    by Kat Baker 31 Mar 2009

    New proposals for increasing parental leave pay in stages over the next 10 years will cause “an administrative headache” for...

    • Civil Service
    • Department for Business and Trade (DBT)
    • Department for Education

    Prime Minister steps in to curb civil service pay rises

    by Kat Baker 31 Mar 2009
    by Kat Baker 31 Mar 2009

    Gordon Brown has stepped in to restrict senior civil servant pay rises to 1.5% today,urging the executives to show “leadership”...

    • Latest News
    • HR practice
    • Graduates

    Microsoft uses dating software to retain high-flyers

    by Kat Baker 31 Mar 2009
    by Kat Baker 31 Mar 2009

    Microsoft’s learning and development chief has halved turnover of talented employees by matching them to experienced mentors using “dating agency”...

    • Bonuses
    • Latest News
    • Pay & benefits

    HR directors to earn up to £156,000 in 2009

    by Kat Baker 31 Mar 2009
    by Kat Baker 31 Mar 2009

    HR directors can expect to take home £156,000 in basic pay and bonuses this year, exclusive research has revealed.The report,...

    • Careers in HR
    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business

    HR staff redeployed internally rather than made redundant to retain skills

    by Kat Baker 31 Mar 2009
    by Kat Baker 31 Mar 2009

    HR chiefs have doubled the number of HR staff they redeploy internally over the past year as a way of...

    • Employment law
    • Latest News
    • Redundancy

    Google to cut a further 200 jobs

    by Kat Baker 30 Mar 2009
    by Kat Baker 30 Mar 2009

    Google has admitted to a string of mistakes which have forced the company to make another 200 redundancies globally in...

    • Latest News
    • Pay & benefits

    City staff advised to dress down in bid to avoid G20 protest attacks

    by Kat Baker 27 Mar 2009
    by Kat Baker 27 Mar 2009

    Bankers and City workers have been told to dress down or avoid coming to work at all next week to...

    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business
    • Executive pay

    NHS managers’ pay rises three times higher than average

    by Kat Baker 27 Mar 2009
    by Kat Baker 27 Mar 2009

    Top NHS managers have enjoyed a pay rise three times higher than the average for the rest of the public...

    • Police
    • Latest News
    • Pay & benefits

    Pay rises for NHS staff, teachers and police set to continue until 2011

    by Kat Baker 27 Mar 2009
    by Kat Baker 27 Mar 2009

    NHS staff, teachers and police officers are on track to enjoy pay rises until at least 2011, quashing concerns that...

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Latest News
    • Race discrimination

    Fire Service recruitment campaign aims to increase diversity

    by Kat Baker 26 Mar 2009
    by Kat Baker 26 Mar 2009

    The government has launched a recruitment campaign targeting ethnic minorities and women to help the Fire Service reach its new...

    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business
    • Labour market

    Manufacturing sector pay settlements fall to 1.7%

    by Kat Baker 25 Mar 2009
    by Kat Baker 25 Mar 2009

    Pay settlements in the manufacturing sector have dropped to 1.7% according to new data, 0.3% below that agreed for most...

    • Health and safety
    • Latest News
    • HR practice

    Housing officers face daily physical and verbal abuse by the public

    by Kat Baker 25 Mar 2009
    by Kat Baker 25 Mar 2009

    Housing officers are being physically and verbally abused on a daily basis by the public they are trying to serve,...

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