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HR Zone Members Newswire Issue 159
11 July 2006
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Editor’s note
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Persons with spent convictions should not be discriminated
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taking on an ex-criminal or finding one in their midst. Can HR
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Annie Hayes MCIPD
Editor
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Feature of the week:
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Would you hire an ex-criminal?
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Sarah Fletcher reports.
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Key business solutions:
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Defrauding the business?
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Keith Luxon points to gross misconduct.
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Content for a staff handbook
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Members offer Gill Walmsley advice on compiling a staff
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Legal advice on HR Zone
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What’s the answer? Notice of intention to resign
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Liz Cullen gets legal guidance this week from Helen Badger,
employment law expert at Browne Jacobson and Martin Brewer, a
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verbal intention to resign that never materialises.
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Welcome new members
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This week, HR Zone welcomes members from the following
organisations, among others, to the site:

Rural Payments Agency, Connexions Norfolk, Dacorum Borough
Council, Matrix Polymers, Capita, Oxfam, Amtico, Hewitt
Associates, Acas, Freshfields Bruckhause Deringer, Nestle, HBOS
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