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    Restructure will enable HR to improve service delivery

    by Personnel Today 7 Mar 2008
    by Personnel Today 7 Mar 2008

    Having read the recent article on job cuts at Birmingham City Council (‘Birmingham to cut 80 HR jobs in equal...

    • Bullying and harassment
    • HR practice
    • Letters

    As long as HR backs the bullies nothing will change

    by Personnel Today 3 Mar 2008
    by Personnel Today 3 Mar 2008

    It is great to read your stories on the impact of bullying/harassment in the workplace. However, despite overwhelming statistics, employers...

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Family-friendly working
    • Flexible working

    Employee mobility is not something to be feared

    by Personnel Today 3 Mar 2008
    by Personnel Today 3 Mar 2008

    It is unfortunate that the secretary of state John Hutton believes that a move to extend the right to ask...

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • HR strategy
    • Family-friendly working

    Flexible working is clearly good for the bottom line

    by Personnel Today 3 Mar 2008
    by Personnel Today 3 Mar 2008

    While it’s encouraging that the government is investigating plans to extend the right to flexible working, it is worrying that...

    • Education - school
    • Learning & development
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    Educational excellence drive fails to deliver the right skills

    by Personnel Today 3 Mar 2008
    by Personnel Today 3 Mar 2008

    I found Tony Pettengell’s Off Message ‘Education gap hits skill drive’ (Personnel Today, 29 January) quite intriguing, and felt it...

    • Stress
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    • Sickness absence

    Refusing to help ‘skint’ staff costs firms more in long run

    by Personnel Today 25 Feb 2008
    by Personnel Today 25 Feb 2008

    This week's letters on: financial difficulties and staff sickness absence; getting HR back to basics; and the long-hours culture.

    • Employment law
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    Data protection prosecution?

    by Personnel Today 20 Feb 2008
    by Personnel Today 20 Feb 2008

    With all the hype today regarding data protection, I feel I have to write about what happened to me. A pensioned...

    • Letters
    • Wellbeing

    Get on your bike, go green and improve staff fitness

    by Personnel Today 18 Feb 2008
    by Personnel Today 18 Feb 2008

    With health secretary Alan Johnson’s announcement of a £372m anti-obesity strategy (Personnel Today, 29 January), the pressure will be on...

    • Employee relations
    • Mediation
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    Mediation needs regulation and codes of practice

    by Personnel Today 18 Feb 2008
    by Personnel Today 18 Feb 2008

    Mediation needs regulation and codes of practiceI read with interest the editorial comment in last week’s Personnel Today (12 February)...

    • HR practice
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    If HR gets back to basics it can prove what it is worth

    by Personnel Today 18 Feb 2008
    by Personnel Today 18 Feb 2008

    Your Editorial Comment (Personnel Today, 5 February) raised a number of questions about what is good, and not so good,...

    • Health and safety
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    Obesity: Direct link between healthy staff and healthy profits

    by Personnel Today 11 Feb 2008
    by Personnel Today 11 Feb 2008

    Obesity; and the shortage of headteachers

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Equal pay
    • Letters

    Discrimination is not only cause of gender pay gap

    by Personnel Today 4 Feb 2008
    by Personnel Today 4 Feb 2008

    In your article ‘GMB union highlights gender pay divide in human resources’ (Personneltoday.com, 7 December 2007), the GMB attributes the...

    • Letters
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    • Retention of staff

    Public recognition is the key to retaining your staf

    by Personnel Today 4 Feb 2008
    by Personnel Today 4 Feb 2008

    With 47% of all staff citing a lack of recognition at work as a major contributing factor in their decision...

    • Apprenticeships
    • Employment law
    • Learning & development

    Bear all legal pitfalls in mind when employing apprentices

    by Personnel Today 4 Feb 2008
    by Personnel Today 4 Feb 2008

    I have noted in recent issues much discussion about addressing the skills gap and the increased willingness of employers to...

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    by Personnel Today 28 Jan 2008

    Health and safety legislation, absence strategies and working time regulations

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