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    Tackling health at work leaves food for thought

    by Personnel Today 29 Oct 2007
    by Personnel Today 29 Oct 2007

    Your analysis of healthy eating in the workplace was right to point out that “helping to improve employees’ health is...

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
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    The debate about diversity role must extend to entire organisation

    by Personnel Today 22 Oct 2007
    by Personnel Today 22 Oct 2007

    There is merit in extending the debate relating to whether human resources (HR) is the ‘home’ of diversity within an...

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    • Sickness absence

    Daily phone-in absence scheme could help to reduce absenteeism

    by Personnel Today 22 Oct 2007
    by Personnel Today 22 Oct 2007

    Business hours lost through employee GP appointments may need a more deep-seated approach to managing employee sickness than human resources...

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    Public sector travel chaos is major cause for concern

    by Personnel Today 22 Oct 2007
    by Personnel Today 22 Oct 2007

    Two letters about civil servants' first class travel expenses

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
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    Can Trevor Phillips really be trusted on diversity?

    by Personnel Today 22 Oct 2007
    by Personnel Today 22 Oct 2007

    I was amazed by the Personnel Today article regarding the Commission for Racial Equality’s (CRE) poor record on equalities (Personnel...

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    • Letters

    Speech defects: stammering and stuttering

    by Personnel Today 19 Oct 2007
    by Personnel Today 19 Oct 2007

    As a PWS (person who stutters/stammers), I found your article Speech defects legal Q & A. I applaud the British...

    • Learning & development
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    The national minimum wage

    by Personnel Today 16 Oct 2007
    by Personnel Today 16 Oct 2007

    John Charlton is being far too simplistic in his assertion, as made in the article on NEETs (those aged 16...

    • Learning & development
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    Investing in training

    by Personnel Today 16 Oct 2007
    by Personnel Today 16 Oct 2007

    You mentioned in your September issue of Training and Coaching Today that less than one in four adults spend their...

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    Information on employing older workers

    by Personnel Today 16 Oct 2007
    by Personnel Today 16 Oct 2007

    I’d like to advise Training and Coaching Today readers of the Department for Work and Pension’s Age Positive initiative, which...

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    Screening for bogus staff is not whistleblowing

    by Personnel Today 15 Oct 2007
    by Personnel Today 15 Oct 2007

    Promoting a culture where it is safe for staff to raise whistleblowing concerns is good for business and reduces the...

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    Chief constable’s aim was to highlight essential cash crisis

    by Personnel Today 15 Oct 2007
    by Personnel Today 15 Oct 2007

    I’d like to challenge some of the comments made in your Off Message article ‘Cop a load of that’ (Personnel...

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Equal pay
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    Gender gap mainly down to unintentional circumstances

    by Personnel Today 8 Oct 2007
    by Personnel Today 8 Oct 2007

    It seems absurd that 37 years after the Equal Pay Act was born, there is still a significant divide between...

    • Health and safety
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    • Wellbeing

    Credible research abounds on obesity/absence link

    by Personnel Today 8 Oct 2007
    by Personnel Today 8 Oct 2007

    Richard Essery may be right in arguing that his sedentary lifestyle is a personal matter, but he is wrong in...

    • Health and safety
    • Letters
    • Wellbeing

    Data contradicts assertions on obesity and illness rates

    by Personnel Today 8 Oct 2007
    by Personnel Today 8 Oct 2007

    While Richard Essery is entitled to his view that overweight employees are not less productive and more susceptible to illness,...

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    • Letters

    Private sector workers just as proud and praise-worthy as public sector staff

    by Personnel Today 8 Oct 2007
    by Personnel Today 8 Oct 2007

    Gillian Hibberd’s worthy sentiments (Letters, Personnel Today, 18 September) regarding a lack of recognition of Sue Scrivens and her colleagues’...

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