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    • Recruitment & retention
    • The HR profession

    Adecco buys MPS Group to improve access to US and UK markets

    by Mike Berry 20 Oct 2009
    by Mike Berry 20 Oct 2009

    Global HR services group Adecco has bought the MPS Group in a deal worth about £714m.MPS is a leading provider...

    • Employment law
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Maternity

    EHRC calls for improved paternity rights

    by Mike Berry 20 Oct 2009
    by Mike Berry 20 Oct 2009

    New fathers should be given better paid paternity leave and extra parental leave, according to a report from the Equality...

    • CIPD
    • Latest News
    • Pay & benefits

    CIPD to close final salary pension scheme

    by Mike Berry 19 Oct 2009
    by Mike Berry 19 Oct 2009

    The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) is to close its final salary pension scheme to new members in...

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Retirement

    Default retirement age: employers and industry groups urged to share their views

    by Mike Berry 16 Oct 2009
    by Mike Berry 16 Oct 2009

    Employers and industry groups have been urged to make their views known on the default retirement age (DRA) ahead of...

    • Recruitment & retention
    • Pre-employment screening
    • References

    FSA reminds chief executives to closely vet candidates for influential roles

    by Mike Berry 15 Oct 2009
    by Mike Berry 15 Oct 2009

    The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has written to the chief executives of 5,000 firms to remind them of their responsibilities...

    • Employment law
    • Employment contracts
    • Recruitment & retention

    Government delays Agency Workers Directive implementation date

    by Mike Berry 15 Oct 2009
    by Mike Berry 15 Oct 2009

    The government has delayed the introduction of the Agency Workers Directive (AWD) until October 2011 as part of efforts to...

    • Employment law
    • Discipline

    Hospital staff suspended for playing ‘Lying Down Game’ return to work

    by Mike Berry 14 Oct 2009
    by Mike Berry 14 Oct 2009

    Seven members of staff at Swindon’s Great Western Hospital suspended for playing the internet Lying Down Game have now returned...

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Retirement

    Ditch the Retirement Age campaign moves into new phase

    by Mike Berry 7 Oct 2009
    by Mike Berry 7 Oct 2009

    Personnel Today’s campaign to scrap the default retirement age (DRA) has now moved on to its next stage – convincing...

    • Careers in HR
    • HR strategy
    • Personnel Today

    Standard Chartered’s Tim Miller named as Personnel Today’s top Power Player

    by Mike Berry 2 Oct 2009
    by Mike Berry 2 Oct 2009

    Standard Chartered’s HR chief Tim Miller has been crowned Personnel Today’s Top HR Power Player for 2009.Over the past few...

    • Personnel Today
    • Recruitment & retention
    • The HR profession

    Personnel Today Awards 2009: Award for Innovation in Recruitment and Retention

    by Mike Berry 1 Oct 2009
    by Mike Berry 1 Oct 2009

    This award recognises effective approaches to the selection, recruitment and retention of employees at all levels from school leaver and...

    • Age discrimination
    • Civil Service
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion

    Retirement age to be scrapped for senior civil servants

    by Mike Berry 1 Oct 2009
    by Mike Berry 1 Oct 2009

    The Civil Service will scrap its mandatory retirement age for all employees from April 2010.Last year Cabinet Office chief Gus...

    • Recruitment & retention

    Recruitment firms fined millions by OFT for price fixing

    by Mike Berry 30 Sep 2009
    by Mike Berry 30 Sep 2009

    The OFT has fined six recruitment agencies a total of £39.3m for price-fixing and the collective boycott of another company...

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Retirement

    Default retirement age on the way out, despite High Court ruling

    by Mike Berry 25 Sep 2009
    by Mike Berry 25 Sep 2009

    The days are numbered for the UK’s default retirement age (DRA) despite today’s High Court ruling that it is legal...

    • Employee relations
    • Industrial action / strikes
    • The HR profession

    HR manager beaten to death by sacked workers

    by Mike Berry 24 Sep 2009
    by Mike Berry 24 Sep 2009

    A top human resources executive was beaten to death by an angry mob of employees shortly after firing them.Roy George,...

    • Age discrimination
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Retirement

    Heyday retirement age High Court ruling due imminently

    by Mike Berry 23 Sep 2009
    by Mike Berry 23 Sep 2009

    A High Court decision on the Heyday legal challenge to the default retirement age (DRA) will be announced in the...

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