Failure to report accidents puts colleagues at risk
Failure to report accidents or near misses results in putting colleagues at risk and leaving employers open to prosecution for breaches of health and safety regulations.City & Guilds, which has launched a drive to encourage good working practices, has found that 80 per cent of SME employees believe that up to a quarter of accidents […]
Health service workers most likely to be down in the dumps
Health service workers are more likely to be disillusioned with their jobs and have less faith in their leaders than other public sector workers.According to data from The Worker’s Index, health service workers are more likely to be critical of management and the service provided.Alexandra Jones, senior researcher at The Work Foundation, and co-author of […]
HR Zone Briefing #302 – HR Outsourcing: Friend or Foe?
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Company of the week: Deloitte
*Benefits stats*Benefits offered: Pensions. Life assurance. Dental insurance. Personal accident cover. Private medical insurance (BUPA). Permanent health insurance. Childcare vouchers. Company car scheme. Core holiday entitlement of 25 days per year plus holiday purchase scheme. Bikes For Work programme. Online Lifestyle Management offering (Xexec – discounts site with a full range of staff discounts). Most […]
HR Outsourcing: Friend or Foe? By Annie Hayes
The endless cycle of efficiency initiatives, profit chasing and focus on the bottom line has led many to go down the HR outsourcing route so should it be feared by those in HR or embraced as the next step in the functions development? Annie Hayes, HR Zone Editor reports. What is meant by HR outsourcing?The […]
Mobile salary saver to bridge the HCI void
The withdrawal of the Home Computing Initiative in the March 2006 budget announcement shook the employee benefits world. The demise of HCI has seen organisations looking for a replacement for this popular benefit, particularly where they have a mature and well established benefits culture. Mobile phone provider Flexphone outlines the scheme. Mobile Salary Saver, which […]
Member’s tip: Medical expenses
Does medical expense cover ensure a healthy and productive workforce or is it an expensive policy that makes little difference to employee retention? Iain Young outlines some important considerations. Bearing in mind a simply thing like a PET Scan can cost over £1,300, if you are serious about getting people back to work I would […]
HR Zone Members Newswire #156 – Fleas at Work, Tatoos and CIPD Exams
================================================================ HR Zone Members Newswire Issue 156 27 June 2006 www.hrzone.co.uk ================================================================ ********************** Featured Sponsors *********************** Transforming an industry – Free whitepaper http://www.hrzone.co.uk/redirects/cccoma.html You and your money: Personal finance in context from the OU http://www.hrzone.co.uk/redirects/ou1a.html Revolutionise your HR system – Case study http://www.hrzone.co.uk/redirects/vizual6a.html Directors Rewards – Executive summary and results http://www.hrzone.co.uk/redirects/croner15.html **************************************************************** Editor’s note ============= […]
HR Tip: Probation periods
These questions are being answered by Learn HR, a market leader in the provision of HR and payroll training and nationally-recognised professional qualifications. Q: “Is it a good idea to put new starters on a probation period and, if so, what should we say?” A: If you put someone onto an initial probation period you commit yourself […]
Sophistication rules for 21st Century inductions
Forget the tea-making and toilets tour – 21st Century managers have introduced far more sophisticated induction processes according to a study in the current issue of IRS Employment Review.Almost all employers now offer some sort of induction to a new recruit with 19 per cent relying on a one-off session to orientate employees on their […]
New parental rights get royal assent
A range of new regulations covering parental and carers rights have been brought together under the Work and Families Act, which has received royal assent.The provisions come into force on October 1 but the effects won’t be felt by most organisations until April 2007.Changes to existing legislation include: Extending statutory maternity, paternity and adoption pay […]
Let’s (not) go outside
The Government is considering extending the workplace smoking ban, which is due to come into force next summer, to office doorways.It is proposed that the ban would extend to outdoor spaces if there is a ‘significant risk’ that people would be exposed to ‘significant quantities of smoke’.At the moment, it is thought that any outdoor […]
Court rules victimisation applies to ex-employees
A new court of appeal decision has extended the protection against victimisation to whistle-blowing ex-employees who have made ‘protected disclosures’.Although there was protection from victimisation under discrimination law following a House of Lords decision in 2003, this had not been extended to other areas of employment law.Both the employment tribunal and the appeal tribunal had […]
Corporate control – value add or value laden?
Corporate communications specialist Karen Drury considers how organisations control and manage their employees by promoting their own values. One of the most popular management methods of control in modern organisations is through the development of value programmes which implicitly – if not explicitly – indicate how employees should behave, the style they should adopt, even […]
Employment law – A drain on the balance sheet?
The impact of employment regulations on businesses has been an issue of great debate for many years. Dan Martin spoke to some of sister site AccountingWEB’s business members for their views on the true cost of red tape. “Too costly for employers” was the reason given earlier this week by the government when it announced […]
What’s the answer? Fleas at work
Ben Harding gets legal guidance this week from Martin Brewer, a Partner with the employment team of Mills & Reeve, and Helen Badger, employment law expert at Browne Jacobson, on sharing a workspace with those of the small, wingless and parasitic variety. The question:The whole office here has just received an email saying: “The pest […]
Company of the week: AXA PPP healthcare
*Benefits stats*Benefits offered: Pensions: final salary available to eligible staff. Private Medical Insurance (PMI): open to all grades of staff and their families. Annual leave: rising from 22 days per year to 25 and 28 dependent upon service. Bonuses: linked to personal performance. Rewards for top performers and best performing teams including days out and […]
House of Lords confirms TUPE transfer date
Following a decision by the European Court of Justice, the House of Lords has confirmed that transfers under TUPE (Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981) must take place on a specific date and not over an extended period of time.In addition, employers and employees cannot agree a date for the transfer that is […]
HR Zone Briefing #301 – Psychometric Testing Does It Work?
================================================================ HR Briefing Issue 301 – 22 June 2006 http://www.hrzone.co.uk ================================================================********************** Featured Sponsors *********************** Directors Rewards – Free executive summary and results http://www.hrzone.co.uk/redirects/croner14a.html **************************************************************** Editor’s Note ============= Finding the best staff is the perennial recruitment challenge. In our feature of the week Sarah Fletcher reports on whether psychometric testing is a help or a hindrance […]
Colborn’s Corner: The recruitment lottery
Quentin Colborn looks at the CIPD’s annual Recruitment, Retention and Turnover Survey released this month reporting on the activity levels involved in hiring the best staff and examining what part luck and chance play. They say that one of the easiest jobs to recruit for is an MP. There are dozens of people willing to […]
