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Laura Chamberlain

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    Government to review voluntary sector skills

    by Laura Chamberlain 15 Oct 2012
    by Laura Chamberlain 15 Oct 2012

    The Government will launch a review into leadership and skills in the voluntary sector to identify the challenges of developing...

    • Employment law
    • Shared parental leave
    • Latest News

    Shared parental leave reforms to be delayed

    by Laura Chamberlain 12 Oct 2012
    by Laura Chamberlain 12 Oct 2012

    Plans to allow parents to share maternity leave entitlement will be delayed until October 2015 due to fears over the...

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    • HR practice
    • Learning & development

    A quarter of bosses have ‘destructive’ leadership style

    by Laura Chamberlain 12 Oct 2012
    by Laura Chamberlain 12 Oct 2012

    One manager in four has a “catastrophically” bad style of leadership and could be damaging productivity in their teams, a...

    • Employment law
    • Employment contracts

    Majority of public reject Government’s ‘owner-employee’ proposal

    by Laura Chamberlain 11 Oct 2012
    by Laura Chamberlain 11 Oct 2012

    Nearly two-thirds (63%) of people think the Government’s proposal to allow employers to offer staff tax-free shares for the removal...

    • Graduates
    • Recruitment & retention

    Graduate employment ‘better than feared’

    by Laura Chamberlain 11 Oct 2012
    by Laura Chamberlain 11 Oct 2012

    The employment rate for new graduates has remained stable despite fears that the weakening economy and public-sector cuts might limit...

    • Apprenticeships
    • Department for Business and Trade (DBT)
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    Half a million apprenticeships taken up in last year

    by Laura Chamberlain 11 Oct 2012
    by Laura Chamberlain 11 Oct 2012

    More than 500,000 people started an apprenticeship in the year to July 2012, according to the latest government figures, with...

    • Employment law
    • Employment contracts

    Wait before judging owner-employee proposals, says expert

    by Laura Chamberlain 10 Oct 2012
    by Laura Chamberlain 10 Oct 2012

    Those opposed to the new “owner-employee” contract should wait to see the full package of policies on employee ownership before...

    • Absence
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    • Sickness absence management

    Employees bring sickness to work as absence levels drop

    by Laura Chamberlain 9 Oct 2012
    by Laura Chamberlain 9 Oct 2012

    Falling absence levels may point to a rise in presenteeism rather than successful absence management strategies, according to the Chartered...

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    • Employment law

    Government to clamp down on paid civil service union activity

    by Laura Chamberlain 8 Oct 2012
    by Laura Chamberlain 8 Oct 2012

    Civil servants are to face new restrictions on the amount of paid time they can spend on trade union activities,...

    • Employment law
    • Employment contracts

    New ‘owner-employees’ will give up their employment rights

    by Laura Chamberlain 8 Oct 2012
    by Laura Chamberlain 8 Oct 2012

    Employees will be asked to give up some of their employment rights in exchange for shares in their company and...

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    • Job creation and losses

    Demand for staff strengthens to 13-month high

    by Laura Chamberlain 8 Oct 2012
    by Laura Chamberlain 8 Oct 2012

    Job vacancies have grown at their fastest rate for 13 months, with rises reported for both permanent and temporary positions.This...

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    • Economics, government & business

    Taking action on tax avoidance ‘could harm public sector’

    by Laura Chamberlain 5 Oct 2012
    by Laura Chamberlain 5 Oct 2012

    Moves to tackle tax avoidance could make contractors unaffordable for the public sector and hold back efforts to improve public-service delivery.This...

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    • Pay settlements

    Nine more years of pay squeezes, says TUC

    by Laura Chamberlain 4 Oct 2012
    by Laura Chamberlain 4 Oct 2012

    The value of take-home pay will not fully recover until 2021, with UK workers in the middle of a 12-year...

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    • Economics, government & business
    • Learning & development

    Better pay and training ‘could have averted West Coast rail bid mistakes’

    by Laura Chamberlain 4 Oct 2012
    by Laura Chamberlain 4 Oct 2012

    A Labour MP and the former head of the civil service have claimed that skills shortages were behind mistakes made...

    • Employee relations
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    • Economics, government & business

    Second teachers’ union begins work-to-rule strike action

    by Laura Chamberlain 3 Oct 2012
    by Laura Chamberlain 3 Oct 2012

    Members of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) will begin “action short of strike action” today, which will see them refusing...

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