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    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
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    IBM is UK’s most gay-friendly employer for 2007

    by Mike Berry 10 Jan 2007
    by Mike Berry 10 Jan 2007

    IBM has been named the UK’s most gay-friendly employer, according to an annual survey. Gay equality group Stonewall has published its...

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    • The HR profession

    Duncan Brown to leave Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development to join PricewaterhouseCoopers

    by Mike Berry 10 Jan 2007
    by Mike Berry 10 Jan 2007

    Duncan Brown is to leave the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) to become a director in the HR...

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    Half a million civil servants to keep final salary pensions as unions agree move to career average scheme

    by Mike Berry 9 Jan 2007
    by Mike Berry 9 Jan 2007

    An estimated 500,000 civil service workers will retain their final salary pensions under a deal expected to be announced today.But...

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    • Minimum wage

    Refusing to pay national minimum wage could land employers a fine

    by Mike Berry 9 Jan 2007
    by Mike Berry 9 Jan 2007

    Employers who refuse to pay the minimum wage could face a £200 fine for every underpaid worker, the government has announced.
    Employers...

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    Department of Trade and Industry to crack down on employers that fail to pay minimum wage

    by Mike Berry 9 Jan 2007
    by Mike Berry 9 Jan 2007

    The government is planning to crack down on employers that flout minimum wage laws. The Department of Trade and Industry...

    • Latest News
    • Pay & benefits
    • Pensions

    British Airways agrees pension deal with main unions

    by Mike Berry 8 Jan 2007
    by Mike Berry 8 Jan 2007

    British Airways has reached a deal with its four main trade unions on a package of reforms to tackle its...

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    • HR strategy
    • Productivity

    Train operator GNER issues radio-controlled watches to 1,000 frontline staff

    by Mike Berry 8 Jan 2007
    by Mike Berry 8 Jan 2007

    Rail workers are being given new watches in a bid to make more trains leave on time.Staff at train operator...

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    • Gender reassignment discrimination
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    Tribunal rules against biggest discrimination claim so far by transsexual forced to quit Hitachi Data Systems

    by Mike Berry 8 Jan 2007
    by Mike Berry 8 Jan 2007

    Jessica Bussert, a transsexual who claimed that she was forced to quit a high-powered job at Hitachi Data Systems after...

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    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business

    Rail union slams plans to cut number of London Underground cleaners

    by Mike Berry 5 Jan 2007
    by Mike Berry 5 Jan 2007

    A major rail union has criticised plans to cut hundreds of cleaners’ jobs on London Underground. The Rail Maritime and Transport (RMT)...

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    • Economics, government & business

    Civil Service school has become a separate government department

    by Mike Berry 5 Jan 2007
    by Mike Berry 5 Jan 2007

    The National School of Government is now a separate government department, giving it more autonomy to develop its role as a...

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    • HR strategy
    • Outsourcing

    Sandwell council announces plans to outsource back office functions to BT

    by Mike Berry 5 Jan 2007
    by Mike Berry 5 Jan 2007

    Sandwell council in the West Midlands has named BT as the preferred bidder for a £300m 15-year contract  to transform...

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    • HR practice
    • Pay & benefits

    Study reveals employee search for fulfilment not satisfied at work

    by Mike Berry 5 Jan 2007
    by Mike Berry 5 Jan 2007

    More than half of British workers do not feel fulfilled in their jobs, a study of 1,000 employees has revealed.The...

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    • Economics, government & business
    • Recruitment & retention

    Anne Watts to be the next chair of the Appointments Commission

    by Mike Berry 4 Jan 2007
    by Mike Berry 4 Jan 2007

    Health secretary Patricia Hewitt has announced that Anne Watts will take up the post of chair of the Appointments  Commission...

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    • Economics, government & business
    • Job creation and losses

    Covert tactics to reduce nurse pay exposed by Health Service Journal

    by Mike Berry 4 Jan 2007
    by Mike Berry 4 Jan 2007

    Government plans to use covert tactics to reduce nurses’ pay have been revealed in a leaked report on its strategy...

    • Stress
    • Latest News
    • HR practice

    Unpaid overtime worth £23bn in 2006

    by Mike Berry 4 Jan 2007
    by Mike Berry 4 Jan 2007

    Employees in the UK worked £23bn worth of unpaid overtime in 2006, averaging an extra seven hours and six minutes...

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