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    Employment law changes ‘will cost business £23 billion’

    by Laura Chamberlain 15 Feb 2011
    by Laura Chamberlain 15 Feb 2011

    Employers will face a bill of £23.87 billion because of a raft of employment law changes coming into force over...

    • HR practice
    • The HR profession

    HR people moves: G4S, Octavian Security, Kelloggs

    by Laura Chamberlain 14 Feb 2011
    by Laura Chamberlain 14 Feb 2011

    A round-up of the latest HR appointments.Security company G4S Secure Solutions has appointed Julian Duxfield as its new regional HR...

    • Absence
    • Occupational Health
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    Government to launch review into workplace sickness absence

    by Laura Chamberlain 11 Feb 2011
    by Laura Chamberlain 11 Feb 2011

    The Government is to commission an independent review of workplace sickness absence, Personnel Today has learned.The review, sponsored jointly by...

    • Personnel Today
    • Recruitment & retention
    • The HR profession

    Personnel Today Awards 2010: Building an HR team from scratch at Paul UK

    by Laura Chamberlain 11 Feb 2011
    by Laura Chamberlain 11 Feb 2011

    When Esther O’Halloran, HR director of Paul UK, came to the company three years ago the CEO questioned whether or not they...

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    Cycle-to-work schemes improve employee engagement, say businesses

    by Laura Chamberlain 9 Feb 2011
    by Laura Chamberlain 9 Feb 2011

    Personnel Today’s Smart Buyer provides expert guidance on cycle-to-work schemes…

    RESEARCHING CYCLE TO WORK

    Cycling to work: an introduction for...

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    • Job creation and losses

    Job placements rise at fastest rate in six months

    by Laura Chamberlain 9 Feb 2011
    by Laura Chamberlain 9 Feb 2011

    The number of permanent and temporary appointments grew at a faster rate in January than at any time in the past six...

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    • Early careers
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    Government urges employers to take on apprentices

    by Laura Chamberlain 7 Feb 2011
    by Laura Chamberlain 7 Feb 2011

    Business secretary Vince Cable and skills minister John Hayes have called on employers to create “a new generation of skilled...

    • Vexatious claims
    • Employee relations
    • Latest News

    End unions’ collective bargaining rights to boost growth, says IoD

    by Laura Chamberlain 7 Feb 2011
    by Laura Chamberlain 7 Feb 2011

    The Government should end collective bargaining between unions and employers in the NHS and education sectors in order to boost...

    • Employee engagement
    • Employment law
    • Latest News

    One-fifth of workers believe they may lose jobs

    by Laura Chamberlain 4 Feb 2011
    by Laura Chamberlain 4 Feb 2011

    One employee in five believes that they are likely to lose their job, according to research by the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development...

    • Employee relations
    • Employee engagement
    • Employment law

    Workplace unrest rises as austerity measures take toll

    by Laura Chamberlain 3 Feb 2011
    by Laura Chamberlain 3 Feb 2011

    Employers face a sustained increase in workplace unrest as staff work longer and harder without greater reward. This is according...

    • Employment law
    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business

    Public spending cuts could prove hard to deliver, warns IFS

    by Laura Chamberlain 2 Feb 2011
    by Laura Chamberlain 2 Feb 2011

    Planned cuts to public spending could prove “formidably hard to deliver”, according to a forecast by the Institute for Fiscal Studies...

    • Employment law
    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business

    Cost of redundancy rises for employers

    by Laura Chamberlain 1 Feb 2011
    by Laura Chamberlain 1 Feb 2011

    Employers will find it more costly to make workers redundant from today, as the maximum caps on statutory redundancy pay...

    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business

    Government warned not to ignore low-paid workers

    by Laura Chamberlain 1 Feb 2011
    by Laura Chamberlain 1 Feb 2011

    The Government must look beyond the unemployed and expand opportunities for the 10 million workers earning less than £15,000 in...

    • Employment law
    • Employment tribunals

    Employers to face penalty if they lose tribunal cases

    by Laura Chamberlain 31 Jan 2011
    by Laura Chamberlain 31 Jan 2011

    Employers that lose employment tribunals could face a penalty of half of the award given to the claimant, as part of government...

    • Employee engagement
    • Personnel Today
    • HR strategy

    Personnel Today Awards 2010: Employer brand crucial to engaging global workforce at IHG

    by Laura Chamberlain 25 Jan 2011
    by Laura Chamberlain 25 Jan 2011

    In an international organisation with a large workforce it is challenging to get everyone behind the same company goals. Intercontinental...

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