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Personnel Today articles are written by an expert team of award-winning journalists who have been covering HR and L&D for many years. Some of our content is attributed to "Personnel Today" for a number of reasons, including: when numerous authors are associated with writing or editing a piece; or when the author is unknown (particularly for older articles).

    • Education - further and higher
    • Letters
    • Recruitment & retention

    Financial awareness can improve UK productivity

    by Personnel Today 24 Sep 2007
    by Personnel Today 24 Sep 2007

    I am writing in response to the news story questioning the importance and role of employers in providing financial education...

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Letters

    Diversity has to be a business-wide concern

    by Personnel Today 24 Sep 2007
    by Personnel Today 24 Sep 2007

    I wholeheartedly support taking diversity away from HR (‘Is diversity destined for a bigger role without HR?‘, Personnel Today, 21 August)....

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
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    • Positive discrimination

    Positive discrimination: Positive contribution to the debate discovered online

    by Personnel Today 24 Sep 2007
    by Personnel Today 24 Sep 2007

    I’ve just discovered Tony Pettengell’s piece ‘Why positive discrimination is a positively stupid idea’ via a Google search, and wanted...

    • Age discrimination
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Letters

    Law will be an ass and not an asset if retirement age stays

    by Personnel Today 24 Sep 2007
    by Personnel Today 24 Sep 2007

    Despite the fuss about extra burdens that the Age Discrimination Regulations were feared to place on business, the regulations have...

    • Recruitment & retention
    • Job descriptions

    Guru: Judges to be judged in appraisal scheme

    by Personnel Today 24 Sep 2007
    by Personnel Today 24 Sep 2007

    Judges to be judged in appraisal schemeJudges, famed for having never heard of the Beatles or the internet, are to...

    • Bullying and harassment
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • HR practice

    Offensive behaviour: what to do when office banter has gone beyond a joke

    by Personnel Today 24 Sep 2007
    by Personnel Today 24 Sep 2007

    Have you heard the one about the gay Welshman, the transgender taxi driver, and the psychiatric patient? Well you might...

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    • Dismissal

    HR’s dismal dismissal record blamed on flawed laws say public sector chiefs

    by Personnel Today 24 Sep 2007
    by Personnel Today 24 Sep 2007

    Public sector HR chiefs have defended the profession following a damning report on basic HR failings, and pointed to serious...

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    HR feedback: What HR directors think about GP availability

    by Personnel Today 24 Sep 2007
    by Personnel Today 24 Sep 2007

    Lucy Lofting, HR director, TGRD Europe“Availability of medical care is a step forward if the commuting population is to manage...

    • Employment law
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    • Recruitment & retention

    Immigration minister Liam Byrne under pressure over backfiring migrant plans

    by Personnel Today 24 Sep 2007
    by Personnel Today 24 Sep 2007

    Pressure is mounting on immigration minister Liam Byrne after he insisted controversial changes to the Highly Skilled Migrant Programme (HSMP)...

    • Learning & development

    Wright Solutions strengthens strategic training with Fifty Lessons

    by Personnel Today 21 Sep 2007
    by Personnel Today 21 Sep 2007

    Wright Solutions, the Midlands’ leading training and HR recruitment specialists, have enhanced their range of strategic training services, announcing a...

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Economics, government & business

    Inequality costs “£1m per hour”

    by Personnel Today 20 Sep 2007
    by Personnel Today 20 Sep 2007

    Committed2Equality (c2e)  has calculated that in the last 12 months unfair practices cost employers £1.7bn – almost £1m every working hour.  The...

    • Learning & development

    Tower Hamlets Council gets dramatic about customer service

    by Personnel Today 20 Sep 2007
    by Personnel Today 20 Sep 2007

    The London Borough of Tower Hamlets has promoted best practice in key customer service issues, such as dealing with challenging...

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Letters

    Study will address diversity issue

    by Personnel Today 20 Sep 2007
    by Personnel Today 20 Sep 2007

    Sir, Further to your recent articles quoting the LSC research into a professional association for diversity advisers and Trevor Phillips’...

    • Stress
    • e-learning
    • Learning & development

    New e-learning course shows how to reduce stress

    by Personnel Today 20 Sep 2007
    by Personnel Today 20 Sep 2007

    Balance Learning, the interactive learning company, has launched an engaging e-learning course which shows how employees can save an average of...

    • Economics, government & business
    • Skills shortages
    • Opinion

    Post-Leitch actions will not solve the IT skills crisis

    by Personnel Today 18 Sep 2007
    by Personnel Today 18 Sep 2007

    Government actions in the wake of last year’s Leitch report on the UK’s skills needs will do little to avert...

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