HR Zone Briefing #246 - HR Diary - Bridget Jones eat your heart out!

Annie Hayes

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HR Zone Briefing #246 – HR Diary – Bridget Jones eat your heart out!

By Annie Hayes

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HR Briefing Issue 246
19 May 2005
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1. Salary errors – the hidden debt
2. Case Study: Health and Safety training at Scottish Power
3. HR Tip: Behaviour at work functions
4. Case law: Agency worker status
5. Any Answers: unions, HR Director job spec, kids to work
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Editor’s note
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Weight – 9st 12lbs, chocolate – 1 bar, wine – 3 glasses,
boyfriends – nil …

We’re delighted to bring you the first of a new diary column.
Sue Kingston, a self-employed HR Consultant is the Bridget Jones
of the HR world albeit with slightly more glamour and a touch
more panache – in this first extract Sue guides us through a
week in her life filled with the highs and lows of working in HR
and the eternal self-battering of too many calories and not
enough dates.

Read on to hear more of Sue’s victories and disasters at:
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/item/141211

Regards

Annie Hayes
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Salary errors – the hidden debt
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Millions of pounds are being lost per year to salary errors.
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/item/141164

Case Study: Health and Safety training at Scottish Power
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Increasing pressures on staff time, a consequent rise in course
cancellations and training costs meant something clearly had to
be done.
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/item/139619

HR Tip: Behaviour at work functions
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“At the latest office party some employees got drunk at the
local hotel, started a bit of horseplay and smashed some
furniture… ”
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Case law: Agency worker status
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The Court of Appeal’s decision in Postworth (t/a SkyBlue) v.
Bunce offers a ray of hope for businesses that use agency
workers.
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