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    • Redundancy

    Brent Council to axe jobs in £50m cost-cutting bid

    by Louisa Peacock 5 Oct 2009
    by Louisa Peacock 5 Oct 2009

    Brent Council will cut 10% of its current workforce in a bid to save £50m by 2014 and become an...

    • Business performance
    • Employment law
    • Department for Business and Trade (DBT)

    Price fixing and anti-competition law: top 10 guide for recruiters

    by Louisa Peacock 2 Oct 2009
    by Louisa Peacock 2 Oct 2009

    This week the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) fined six recruitment agencies a total of £39.3m for price fixing and...

    • Latest News
    • Early careers
    • Economics, government & business

    Generation Y ‘derailed’ during the recession, expert warns

    by Louisa Peacock 1 Oct 2009
    by Louisa Peacock 1 Oct 2009

    Generation Y has been “slapped round the face” during the recession because they either cannot find any jobs or have been...

    • Employee relations
    • Employment law
    • Latest News

    Employment law changes coming into effect 1 October 2009

    by Louisa Peacock 1 Oct 2009
    by Louisa Peacock 1 Oct 2009

    Several employment law changes come into force today, 1 October. These include:

    an increase in the National Minimum Wage (NMW) to £5.80...

    • Employee relations
    • Employment law
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion

    National minimum wage increases to £5.80 per hour

    by Louisa Peacock 1 Oct 2009
    by Louisa Peacock 1 Oct 2009

    The National Minimum Wage (NMW) increase to £5.80 per hour, starting today, will benefit nearly one million workers, according to...

    • Stress
    • Latest News
    • HR practice

    Sickness absence rates predicted to decline by 25% across public and private sectors

    by Louisa Peacock 30 Sep 2009
    by Louisa Peacock 30 Sep 2009

    A leading business academic has forecast that sickness absence will decline by a quarter over the next year across public...

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Family-friendly working
    • Flexible working

    Conservatives tackle flexible working and parental leave at conference

    by Louisa Peacock 30 Sep 2009
    by Louisa Peacock 30 Sep 2009

    The Conservatives will today reiterate their plans for improved flexible working and parental leave at a conference in London discussing...

    • Childcare
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Latest News

    Labour Party Conference: Childcare vouchers to lose tax relief

    by Louisa Peacock 29 Sep 2009
    by Louisa Peacock 29 Sep 2009

    The government will scrap tax and national insurance contribution exemptions for childcare vouchers provided by an employer, instead offering free...

    • Employee relations
    • Employment law
    • Latest News

    CBI sets out youth unemployment and finance recovery plan

    by Louisa Peacock 28 Sep 2009
    by Louisa Peacock 28 Sep 2009

    The CBI has demanded that any government in charge after the next electon should enact a 12-point recovery plan to...

    • Apprenticeships
    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business

    Jobseeker’s Allowance rules may hinder drive to tackle youth unemployment

    by Louisa Peacock 18 Sep 2009
    by Louisa Peacock 18 Sep 2009

    EXCLUSIVE
    Government rules on claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) risk undermining business attempts to give more young people work experience, Personnel...

    • Absence
    • Employment law
    • Annual hours

    Annual leave should be carried over to next year when staff fall sick

    by Louisa Peacock 16 Sep 2009
    by Louisa Peacock 16 Sep 2009

    Employers should change their sick leave policies to allow annual leave to be carried forward into the next year, or...

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

    Unemployment rises to 2.47 million

    by Louisa Peacock 16 Sep 2009
    by Louisa Peacock 16 Sep 2009

    Unemployment has risen to 2.47 million in the three months to July, an increase of 210,000, and up 743,000 on...

    • Employee relations
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Latest News

    Maternity pay plans abandoned for new paternity rights

    by Louisa Peacock 15 Sep 2009
    by Louisa Peacock 15 Sep 2009

    Nicola Johnston, employment lawyer at Pinsent Masons, says the Government’s latest proposals would put the spotlight on father’s honesty as...

    • Employment law
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Family-friendly working

    Carers’ flexible working rights a mystery to most employees

    by Louisa Peacock 14 Sep 2009
    by Louisa Peacock 14 Sep 2009

    Millions of people are unaware that carers have the right to ask for flexible working arrangements, a government survey has...

    • Employee relations
    • Employment law
    • Latest News

    Public spending cuts would cause mass unemployment, TUC warns

    by Louisa Peacock 14 Sep 2009
    by Louisa Peacock 14 Sep 2009

    Public spending cuts would result in a “double-quick double dip” recession, the TUC has warned.General secretary Brendan Barber said a...

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