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Volunteer financial advice ahead of redundancy programmes

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:43:49 GMT

Employers should factor in the provision of personal financial advice ahead of implementing voluntary redundancy programmes, according to consultants Watson Wyatt. <

Friday podcast: absence costing tools, tax breaks for diverse employers and training cuts

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:28:00 GMT

HR news and analysis including: what employers can do to help tackle violent crime and help inner city youths find employment how a new tool for HR directors can show how much money illness is costing the workpla

Migrant worker ban looms for unregistered employers

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:10:00 GMT

Thousands of employers could be banned from hiring migrant workers for certain jobs within weeks, legal experts have warned. From this autumn, organisations wishing to hire foreign staff covered by tiers two and five of the

NHS must come clean on training says Darzi

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:59:00 GMT

Every NHS organisation that receives government cash will have to publish how much it spends on staff training each year, under plans unveiled in Lord Darzi's flagship report on the future of the health service last week. A

Local Employment Partnerships a winner for Nissan

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:42:00 GMT

Nissan's HR director has hailed the value of Local Employment Partnerships (LEPs) after scooping the prize

Another racism review will just slow progress, warns Tiplady

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:36:00 GMT

Another review of institutional racism in the Police Service is not needed and will only stand in the wa

Spoof retirement letters sent to MPs by Employers Forum on Age

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:02:00 GMT

MPs have received spoof retirement letters as the Employers Forum on Age (EFA) ramps up its campaign to scrap th

Minimum wage prosecution leaves butcher with large bill

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:22:00 GMT

Another employer has fallen foul of the government's crackdown on enforcing the National Minimum Wage. The owners of a Sheffield butcher's shop have been ordered to pay more than £11,000 to two former employees after they f

Vodafone Foundation offers chance to work for charities

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:05:00 GMT

Vodafone HR director Matthew Brearly will get involved in a new kind of recruitment activit

Whistleblower guidance marks decade of Public Interest Disclosure Act

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:54:00 GMT

Employers have been urged to adopt a new code of practice launched to mark the 10th anniversary of landmark legislation designed to protect staff who blow the whistle on organisations' wrongdoing. The