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HR Briefing Issue 293 – 27 April 2006
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Editor’s Note
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We’ve got some complex employment law conundrums this week.
First off is our latest member’s tip on withdrawing a job offer.
Kam Bains and Peter Stanway offer two very different viewpoints
on the law regarding what governs a solid deal. Who’s right?
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/item/153972
The second piece is the next in our series of ‘Off the record’
articles addressing your real employment law questions. In this
article lawyers, Reed Smith look at protecting bosses from
pregnancy discrimination legislation.
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/item/153992
Annie Hayes MCIPD
Editor
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Regular Features
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Off the record: Navigating pregnancy discrimination rules
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Find out what the experts say.
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/item/153992
What happened next? Sickness and disciplinary
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Find out what happened next when an ailing worker finally
dragged himself from his sick bed.
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/item/153857
Colborn’s Corner: Green HR?
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With campaigning for the local elections hotting up, Colborn’s
Corner addresses one of the issues that appears to be coming to
the fore – the environment.
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/item/154094
Time off for sporting events?
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surge in sick leave during the World Cup with many matches due
to fall within working hours. How prepared is your organisation
to meet this challenge? Download your free time off for sporting
events policy available from CRONER-i Human Resources:
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Interviews & Comment
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Negotiation: The skill you can’t afford to neglect
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HR Zone looks at the risks of failing to arm your staff with
this neglected skill.
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/item/154083
Sickness absence and disability: Time for new thinking?
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Paul Avis questions the way that sickness, absence and
disability management is being de-medicalised and asks what this
means for traditional and more innovative Occupational Health
programmes.
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/item/154045
HDIGH? Director of Resourcing and Reward, Cancer Research UK
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Tom Russell, Director of Strategic Resourcing and Reward at
Cancer Research UK, talks “fluffy” personnel, liaising with
world class scientists … and 1980s pop.
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/item/153868
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about costs, compliance, administration and ultimately how
Benefex can reward your business as well as your employees.
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Community
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Member’s tip: Withdrawing a job offer
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An employer makes a job offer, the contract is signed (but not
returned) and salary negotiations are underway. Suddenly, the
company retracts the offer. Do verbal and written agreements
constitute a solid deal? Two HR Zone members offer very
different advice.
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/item/153972
HR Tip: Custom and practice
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“Although our contracts of employment require people to work 9
to 5 Monday to Friday they leave at about 4.00 pm on Fridays.
Can we bring them back to a 5.00 pm finish?”
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/item/153969.
Book review: Developing strategic leadership skills
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Reviewer John Pope finds the concept of strategic leadership
“rather vague”, yet gives the book top marks for helpfulness –
despite it diluting any suggestion that this strategy is
“somehow special”.
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/item/153874
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personnel management system their main criteria was to choose an
integrated software solution with further integration into their
accounts system. Frontier Software proved they could make
integration work. Click here to download the case study.
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