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    • Economics, government & business
    • Living Wage

    What did Tony Blair do for HR in 10 years as prime minister?

    by Mike Berry 8 May 2007
    by Mike Berry 8 May 2007

    After 10 years as prime minister, Tony Blair is expected to announce his resignation this week. But will the world of business be bidding him a fond farewell?

    • Employee relations
    • Industrial action / strikes
    • Latest News

    Olympic Delivery Authority at war with construction union Ucatt over building project

    by Mike Berry 8 May 2007
    by Mike Berry 8 May 2007

    EXCLUSIVE
    The £5.3bn Olympic Games building project is heading for industrial relations meltdown as a stand-off intensifies between trade unions and...

    • Latest News
    • HR strategy

    European HR directors choose to keep shared-service centres in home countries rather than cheaper offshore locations

    by Mike Berry 4 May 2007
    by Mike Berry 4 May 2007

    HR directors across Europe are keeping shared-services centres in their home country, and focusing on quality of service rather than...

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Department for Work and Pensions
    • Latest News

    Birmingham uses skills programme Fair Cities to prepare unemployed applicants for street-cleaning jobs

    by Mike Berry 4 May 2007
    by Mike Berry 4 May 2007

    Birmingham City Council has been working with Fair Cities, an employer-driven skills programme, to recruit street cleaners from areas in...

    • Latest News
    • Pay & benefits
    • Pensions

    Half of final salary/defined benefit pension schemes could be closed by 2011

    by Mike Berry 4 May 2007
    by Mike Berry 4 May 2007

    Half of employers with final salary or defined benefit schemes could be closed to future accruals by 2011, trebling the...

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

    HR software company Northgate buys majority stake in international outsourcing company Arinso

    by Mike Berry 3 May 2007
    by Mike Berry 3 May 2007

    HR software company Northgate has bought a majority stake in international outsourcing company Arinso. The purchase is the first step...

    • Employee relations
    • Health and safety
    • Occupational Health

    Construction union Ucatt calls for National Institute for Clinical Excellence to recommend Alimta drug in treating mesothelioma cancer caused by exposure to asbestos

    by Mike Berry 3 May 2007
    by Mike Berry 3 May 2007

    Construction union Ucatt is demanding the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (Nice) recommends the use of the drug Alimta, in...

    • Latest News
    • Learning & development

    Doctors want public inquiry into flawed Medical Training Application Service

    by Mike Berry 3 May 2007
    by Mike Berry 3 May 2007

    Nine out of 10 doctors want a public inquiry into the disastrous online Medical Training Application Service (MTAS), according to...

    • Latest News
    • Pay & benefits
    • Health insurance

    Health and wellbeing benefits are being used to attract and retain top HR staff

    by Mike Berry 2 May 2007
    by Mike Berry 2 May 2007

    Employers are increasingly using health and wellbeing benefits to attract top HR candidates, rather than higher salaries, according to a...

    • Latest News
    • Pay & benefits
    • Pensions

    Tyre giant Michelin to close UK final salary pension scheme to existing staff members in bid to plug £250m shortfall

    by Mike Berry 2 May 2007
    by Mike Berry 2 May 2007

    Tyre manufacturer Michelin is to close its final-salary pension scheme to existing members in the UK and transfer staff to...

    • Acas
    • Careers in HR
    • Employee relations

    Rita Donaghy to take over from Sir Alistair Graham as interim head of the Committee on Standards in Public Life

    by Mike Berry 1 May 2007
    by Mike Berry 1 May 2007

    Rita Donaghy has been appointed interim chair of the Committee on Standards in Public Life  with immediate effect.She takes over...

    • Health & Safety Executive
    • Corporate manslaughter
    • Employment law

    Companies escape corporate manslaughter convictions in the deaths of construction workers

    by Mike Berry 1 May 2007
    by Mike Berry 1 May 2007

    The number of convictions of companies responsible for the death of construction workers has fallen by nearly 75% despite the number...

    • Employee relations
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Disability

    Employers put off recruiting disabled people by politically correct language of disability

    by Mike Berry 1 May 2007
    by Mike Berry 1 May 2007

    Many employers are put off by the politically correct “language of disability”, despite believing they should make efforts to hire...

    • Employee relations
    • Latest News
    • Industrial action / strikes

    Public sector workers in second one-day strike over job cuts, pay and privatisation

    by Mike Berry 1 May 2007
    by Mike Berry 1 May 2007

    Tens of thousands of civil servants across 200 government departments, agencies and non-departmental bodies are taking part in a second one-day...

    • Employee relations
    • Trade unions
    • Opinion

    A new dawn for unions, or just business as usual?

    by Mike Berry 1 May 2007
    by Mike Berry 1 May 2007

    Today you will have come to work as normal, sat down at your desk, drunk your cup of tea and...

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