Development focus welcomed by employees
In a happy marrying of priorities, three quarters of employees would be keen to undertake more on-the-job training, while four out of five HR professionals are making staff development a key focus this year. A three-year research project commissioned by Middlesex University’s Institute for Work Based Learning among an average 4,300 workers per annum […]
Facing the challenge of business transformation – Societe Generale
Luz Helena Rojas is an elegant, vivacious woman who stepped before the SuccessConnect audience with a bold smile and a joke to open her presentation about how she has implemented a new HRIS to help achieve the key business aim of a global company in an extremely challenging atmosphere and sector: the French bank, Societe […]
A guide to benefits: the basics
Employee benefits are an important part of the employee package for recruiting and retaining employees. When it is difficult to recruit suitable skilled people, having a benefits package can often give an organisation the competitive edge. Andrew Walker, Head of Business Development at Croner looks at the different ways of incentivising staff and the key […]
The HR Headmistress asks: Overtime – is it bad for business?
From being a fact of working life, overtime has become a very emotive subject. Perhaps that’s the influence of the rise of the work-life balance lobby. Setting aside business owners, for whom 30-40 hours overtime a week is the norm, in the main there are two discrete groups of workers who regularly work overtime. Historically, […]
Learning at work day highlights skills gap
A workshop on how to be a guerrilla artist and a seminar on how to bake bread are among the activities taking place today as part of this year’s Learning at Work Day. The theme of the Day, which is co-ordinated by Campaign for Learning, a charity that believes learning is key to social […]
Long hours are bad for your health, study reveals
Staff who work more than 11 hours a day are two thirds more likely to suffer heart disease than colleagues working a standard seven to eight hours, research has found. The study undertaken by researchers at University College London tracked the health of 7,095 civil servants aged between 39 and 62 over an 11-year period. […]
Public servants co-ordinate strikes to fight cuts
The first of a series of co-ordinated national strikes in protest at coalition government budget cuts is expected to take place at the end of next month, with more than a million public servants due to take part. The UK’s largest civil service union the Public and Commercial Services Union is expected to vote overwhelmingly […]
Immigration loophole exposed by MPs
Employers could face a crackdown on bringing foreign workers to the UK using intra-company transfer visas, after MPs criticised the UK Border Agency for its current “lack of control” over the system. The Commons Public Accounts Committee said that checks to the scheme were “much more limited” than in other parts of the immigration system, […]
Pay inequality growing – and bad for business
Pay inequality is rocketing in the UK, with top private sector bosses set to earn a massive 214 times more than average wage earners by 2020, an investigation has found. According to an interim report published by the High Pay Commission, which is funded by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, executive renumeration is now “out […]
Gordon Ramsay faces family employment tribunal
The ongoing feud between Gordon Ramsay and his wife’s family has taken a new twist after it emerged that his mother-in-law intends to take him to an employment tribunal. According to the Daily Mail, Greta Hutcheson’s son Adam and grandson Christopher Luke also plan to join her in suing the celebrity chef for alleged unfair […]
Publishing company forced to pay uncontracted intern
In a groundbreaking case, a publishing company has been ordered to pay an intern £1,000 in damages after an employment tribunal ruled that she was classed as a worker under the law, despite having no written contract. Former intern Keri Hudson, 21, who had worked for two months at the My Village web site last […]
Employment law changes ‘creating uncertainty’
Employers groups have warned that the coalition government’s continued “tinkering” with employment legislation is creating “huge uncertainty” and undermining its goal of encouraging businesses to take on new staff. The criticism came following the launch of a “modern workplaces” consultation by Business Secretary Vince Cable and Home Secretary Theresa May yesterday, which outlined four key […]
Fleet life: Tackling the fuel price problem
Despite experiencing “pump shock” from soaring fuel prices, businesses can take practical steps to minimise the pain at the pumps and strengthen the appeal of car benefits, says Paul Hollick of multi-marque car leasing company Alphabet. The sharp increase in pump prices – fuel prices have increased by 40% in real terms over the last […]
Timelords and talent management: 8 reasons your talent is like the Doctor
Why your key talent is as amazing – and annoying – as a Timelord, and how engaging and keeping your talent can be as frustrating as being a Doctor’s assistant. They won’t stay still. Even in a recession, real talent moves. For some, it’s like there was never any recession, they have continued in their […]
Coalition to spend £60 million on private sector apprenticeships
In a bid to deflect criticism over scrapping a £1 billion fund aimed at tackling youth unemployment, the coalition government has pledged to spend £60 million on creating apprenticeships and work placements in private companies. The ‘Supporting Youth Employment’ scheme is intended to fund 250,000 apprenticeship places for 16- to 24-year olds over the next […]
BA strikes peace deal
A peace deal has been reached in the 18-month dispute between British Airways and its cabin crew, only days before the next wave of industrial action was due to take place. The settlement, agreed between the airline and Unite, was backed at a mass meeting near Heathrow airport of nearly 2,000 members of the trade […]
Report reveals engagement more complicated than we thought
The problem with trying to motivate employees and ensure that they remain motivated is that engagement consists of many different facets and is a movable feast, according to a new report. The research undertaken by Kingston University’s Employee Engagement Consortium Project on behalf of the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development revealed that staff engagement […]
Employment law reforms may leave employees unprotected
Employees could have less protection against redundancy and workplace discrimination under coalition government proposals to revamp UK employment law. Chancellor George Osborne told the Institute of Directors’ annual convention in London yesterday that the aim of his “wholesale review” of employment legislation was to support job creation in the private sector. He would do this […]
Self service HR – a cloudy area
Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE Maxwell Systems is consolidating five siloed HR systems and moving them to the cloud in a bid to automate time-consuming manual admin processes and enable employees to undertake self-service activities. The US-based company, which employs 210 staff and sells project management software for construction firms, will see […]
This ain’t a war, it’s a long term talent management strategy
If there is a silver lining to the recession, it is that companies were forced to focus on the issues that really matter. While some thought this would herald a war on talent, this wasn’t the case. Now that economic recovery is underway, businesses have begun investing heavily in long-term strategies to enhance talent and […]
