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    • Business performance
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    Volcano update: Flight ban could cost UK businesses £3m a day

    by Louisa Peacock 19 Apr 2010
    by Louisa Peacock 19 Apr 2010

    The blanket ban on flights in and out of the UK could cost businesses more than £3m a day as...

    • Business performance
    • Police
    • NHS

    NHS, police, fire service and council staff start ‘command’ training

    by Louisa Peacock 19 Apr 2010
    by Louisa Peacock 19 Apr 2010

    Senior NHS, police, fire service and local government staff will participate in a training course this week designed to help...

    • Employment law
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Positive action

    Positive action in recruitment opposed by most firms

    by Louisa Peacock 19 Apr 2010
    by Louisa Peacock 19 Apr 2010

    Four out of five firms oppose using positive action in recruitment – a key clause in the Equality Act to...

    • Latest News
    • Pay & benefits
    • Pensions

    ‘Nest’ private sector pension scheme must be overhauled, says CBI

    by Louisa Peacock 19 Apr 2010
    by Louisa Peacock 19 Apr 2010

    Compulsory workplace pension schemes must be overhauled by the next government or millions of private sector workers will be put...

    • Business performance
    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business

    Public sector job cuts of 500,000 probable, CIPD analysis warns

    by Louisa Peacock 19 Apr 2010
    by Louisa Peacock 19 Apr 2010

    Half a million public sector jobs could be shed over the next five years as the new government begins to...

    • Police
    • Latest News
    • Learning & development

    Met Police HR chief insists nearly 400 officers in HR department are essential for training

    by Louisa Peacock 16 Apr 2010
    by Louisa Peacock 16 Apr 2010

    Met Police HR chief Martin Tiplady has robustly defended the number of uniformed police officers he has working in his...

    • Employee relations
    • Dispute resolution
    • Latest News

    BT could face strikes in a dispute over pay

    by Louisa Peacock 16 Apr 2010
    by Louisa Peacock 16 Apr 2010

    BT could face strikes following a dispute over its proposed pay awards for staff.The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has now...

    • Business performance
    • Apprenticeships
    • Latest News

    Employers warned not to ‘piggy back’ off apprenticeships with poorer courses

    by Louisa Peacock 16 Apr 2010
    by Louisa Peacock 16 Apr 2010

    Employers “piggy-backing” off the popularity of apprenticeships to promote and run their own poor quality courses could ruin the reputation...

    • Latest News
    • HR practice
    • Sickness absence

    Presenteeism at Axa PPP more problematic than sickness absence, report finds

    by Louisa Peacock 16 Apr 2010
    by Louisa Peacock 16 Apr 2010

    Four in 10 employees at Axa PPP have reported ‘sickness presence’ in the workplace – that is, they struggle into...

    • Paternity
    • HR practice

    Labour paternity leave increase plans will not encourage take-up, say HR chiefs

    by Louisa Peacock 15 Apr 2010
    by Louisa Peacock 15 Apr 2010

    Labour’s proposal to increase statutory paternity leave by two weeks will do little to encourage take-up, according to leading HR...

    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business
    • HR strategy

    JCB to recruit up to 200 new jobs

    by Louisa Peacock 15 Apr 2010
    by Louisa Peacock 15 Apr 2010

    Excavator manufacturer JCB will hire up to 200 new workers to meet an increase in demand.The Staffordshire-based firm was forced to...

    • Asylum seekers
    • NHS
    • Employment law

    NHS private contractor employs 1,000 illegal immigrants

    by Louisa Peacock 15 Apr 2010
    by Louisa Peacock 15 Apr 2010

    Nearly 1,000 illegal immigrants have been employed at one of the country’s largest NHS private contractors, it has emerged.An audit by...

    • Employment law
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • HR strategy

    Army faces £1.1m claim from former soldier over lack of childcare support

    by Louisa Peacock 15 Apr 2010
    by Louisa Peacock 15 Apr 2010

    A single mother who is suing the Army after it offered little support with childcare is seeking £1.1m in damages,...

    • Constructive dismissal
    • Employment law
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion

    Hotel du Vin sued by employee for constructive dismissal and race discrimination

    by Louisa Peacock 15 Apr 2010
    by Louisa Peacock 15 Apr 2010

    A former employee is suing Hotel Du Vin after the way it handled an attack on him by a customer.Mieczyslaw...

    • Employment law
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Ethics

    Christian primary school worker suing for religious discrimination reaches settlement

    by Louisa Peacock 15 Apr 2010
    by Louisa Peacock 15 Apr 2010

    A Christian primary school worker who sued Devon County Council for religious discrimination has reached an out-of-court settlement.Jennie Cain, from...

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