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    • Age discrimination
    • Employment law
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion

    Age discrimination claims up by one-third

    by Laura Chamberlain 1 Jul 2011
    by Laura Chamberlain 1 Jul 2011

    Number of discrimination claims brought to employment tribunal The number of age discrimination claims accepted by employment tribunals in 2010-11 has...

    • Early careers
    • Recruitment & retention
    • Migrant workers

    Hire UK youth over foreign labour, urges Iain Duncan Smith

    by Laura Chamberlain 1 Jul 2011
    by Laura Chamberlain 1 Jul 2011

    Businesses will be urged to give more jobs to young UK workers instead of “falling back” on foreign labour, in...

    • Bribery
    • Employment law

    Bribery Act 2010: offences come into force

    by Laura Chamberlain 1 Jul 2011
    by Laura Chamberlain 1 Jul 2011

    The Bribery Act 2010 comes into force today, introducing a corporate offence for organisations that fail to prevent bribery by people...

    • Absence
    • HR practice
    • Sickness absence

    Workplace absence levels in steady decline

    by Laura Chamberlain 29 Jun 2011
    by Laura Chamberlain 29 Jun 2011

    There has been a gradual but steady decline in absence levels over the past five years, falling from an average...

    • Employee relations
    • Industrial action / strikes
    • HR practice

    Employers warned not to take hard line with parents affected by strikes

    by Laura Chamberlain 29 Jun 2011
    by Laura Chamberlain 29 Jun 2011

    Employment lawyers have warned organisations not to refuse parents the day off on Thursday 30 June, or subject them to...

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

    Graduate jobseekers face record competition

    by Laura Chamberlain 28 Jun 2011
    by Laura Chamberlain 28 Jun 2011

    Applications for graduate jobs have hit a record high, with an average of 83 university leavers applying for each vacancy,...

    • Employee relations
    • CIPD
    • Industrial action / strikes

    Communicate benefits to undermine case for strikes, says CIPD

    by Laura Chamberlain 27 Jun 2011
    by Laura Chamberlain 27 Jun 2011

    Public sector employers can prevent escalating strike action by communicating the benefits of being employed in the sector, the Chartered...

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

    Job market growth hits seven-month low

    by Laura Chamberlain 8 Jun 2011
    by Laura Chamberlain 8 Jun 2011

    Growth of staff appointments to permanent and temporary positions has slowed to the weakest rate in seven months, according to...

    • HR practice
    • The HR profession

    HR Moves: Friends Life, Business Environment, Innovate Services

    by Laura Chamberlain 6 Jun 2011
    by Laura Chamberlain 6 Jun 2011

    A round-up of the latest HR appointments.Pensions, investments and insurance provider Friends Life has appointed Rob Barnett as its director...

    • Latest News
    • Pay & benefits
    • Pay settlements

    Employers resist pay pressures as awards remain weak

    by Laura Chamberlain 27 May 2011
    by Laura Chamberlain 27 May 2011

    Employers have continued to resist the pressure of high inflation on pay, with the average basic pay award falling from...

    • CIPD
    • Latest News
    • Pay & benefits

    Pay frozen at a quarter of organisations

    by Laura Chamberlain 26 May 2011
    by Laura Chamberlain 26 May 2011

    One employer in four (26%) has already frozen or will freeze pay this year and just under one in 10...

    • CIPD
    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business

    Recession could see jobless recovery, says HSBC economist

    by Laura Chamberlain 26 May 2011
    by Laura Chamberlain 26 May 2011

    As the UK comes out of recession, the country could see a “jobless recovery” resulting in economic growth without accompanying...

    • Employment law

    UK business should stop ‘seeing red’ over employment regulation, says the CIPD

    by Laura Chamberlain 23 May 2011
    by Laura Chamberlain 23 May 2011

    Business lobbying against employment legislation uses statistics selectively and “flies in the face of economic evidence”, according to a report...

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • The HR profession

    Representation of women in HR down from peak

    by Laura Chamberlain 23 May 2011
    by Laura Chamberlain 23 May 2011

    Although the human resources profession is still dominated by women, female representation in the industry peaked in 2007 and has since been...

    • Employee relations
    • Dispute resolution
    • Mediation

    Employers turn to mediation to resolve conflict

    by Laura Chamberlain 23 May 2011
    by Laura Chamberlain 23 May 2011

    Half the organisations surveyed in XpertHR’s conflict management survey that have altered their conflict management approach in the last two years...

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