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    Passion provides enough drive for everyone

    by Personnel Today 21 Feb 2006
    by Personnel Today 21 Feb 2006

    I read with interest your ‘Spotlight on… going it alone’ article (Personnel Today, 7 February) as I made the same...

    • Letters

    Is the use of enhanced checks always illegal?

    by Personnel Today 14 Feb 2006
    by Personnel Today 14 Feb 2006

    I am the group HR manager for a leisure management company that recruits employees for leisure centres. In the normal course of their working day, they have access to all areas of the centres during opening hours, where there may be children and vulnerable people at any time

    • Letters

    Better safe than sorry: CRB checks for all employees

    by Personnel Today 14 Feb 2006
    by Personnel Today 14 Feb 2006

    When I was employed in a college, we used to request CRB checks on all of our employees

    • Ex-offenders
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    Ex-offenders hindered by over-anxious employers

    by Personnel Today 14 Feb 2006
    by Personnel Today 14 Feb 2006

    I am delighted that the NHS has been caught out over these illegal CRB checks (Personnel Today, 24 January). I have fought against this trend in my higher education organisation for quite some time

    • Letters

    Organisations are partly responsible for coaching

    by Personnel Today 14 Feb 2006
    by Personnel Today 14 Feb 2006

    I am writing in response to your news story, 'Coaches sow seeds of chaos' (Personnel Today, 10 January)

    • Letters

    CRB checks are still the best safeguard for all concerned

    by Personnel Today 14 Feb 2006
    by Personnel Today 14 Feb 2006

    I was interested in your report on NHS employers breaking the law by conducting Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) checks on all staff (Personnel Today, 24 January)

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    Employee monitoring is not snooping system

    by Personnel Today 7 Feb 2006
    by Personnel Today 7 Feb 2006

    Your news story "Royal London deploys staff snooping system" (Personneltoday.com, 19 January) is misleading

    • Letters

    Bacstel-IP botch highlights low value of top assets

    by Personnel Today 7 Feb 2006
    by Personnel Today 7 Feb 2006

    Unfortunately, I have to agree that UK employers are likely to face serious problems for not upgrading to the Bacstel-IP payment system in time (Personnel Today, 17 January)

    • Letters

    Ditch the agencies that don’t deliver the goods

    by Personnel Today 7 Feb 2006
    by Personnel Today 7 Feb 2006

    I am responding to Patrizia Napoli's complaint about recruitment agency bidding wars (Personnel Today, 17 January)

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    Making diversity part of business strategy is vital

    by Personnel Today 7 Feb 2006
    by Personnel Today 7 Feb 2006

    To add a different perspective to your feature on diversity training being a tick-box exercise (Personnel Today, 17 January), while I was at Royal Mail, I instigated, designed and led the delivery of what was probably the biggest diversity programme in Europe

    • Learning & development
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    Preparation means you get more than you bargain for

    by Personnel Today 7 Feb 2006
    by Personnel Today 7 Feb 2006

    As an independent consultant, I am responding to the challenge that the training industry is getting greedy

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    Communication is the key to coaching success

    by Personnel Today 31 Jan 2006
    by Personnel Today 31 Jan 2006

    I was concerned by the coaching research (Personnel Today, 10 January), which suggested that a third of employers have no...

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    REC defends Personnel Today stance in race row

    by Personnel Today 31 Jan 2006
    by Personnel Today 31 Jan 2006

    Recruiters must understand the law and, no matter how well intentioned their actions may be, positive recruitment is unlawful except...

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    • Race discrimination
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    Boys’ Brigade attacks Liberty and Law comment

    by Personnel Today 31 Jan 2006
    by Personnel Today 31 Jan 2006

    It was disturbing to read that you have taken the stance that you have in the so-called row over the...

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    Staff not given help to take responsibility for health

    by Personnel Today 24 Jan 2006
    by Personnel Today 24 Jan 2006

    So employers spend an average of £97 per employee each year on health and wellbeing.

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