Comment: The DC pensions risk … continued
An overriding issue is the general lack of governance or management around DC plans. To what extent, for instance, are the problems we have considered even recognised by employers? How wide a problem is it? Are employers monitoring benefit adequacy alongside their ongoing measurement and monitoring of service providers? What segments of their workforce are […]
Comment: The DC pensions risk
Gary Smith, senior consultant at Watson Wyatt looks at whether defined contribution schemes provide the get-out clause to final salary schemes. So, you’ve closed your final salary pension scheme to new employees and perhaps set up a defined contribution (DC) plan for new joiners. At least that is the employer’s pension headache covered in the […]
HR Happy, HR Horror
HR is a bit like drinking a vat of coffee and eating an elephant’s weight in sweets – the high is a buzz of frenzied energy , but the comedown can be enough to have you curled in a ball crying at the sight of sugar. From cyber milk to left handed heroes, it’s been […]
CIPD qualification: Is it necessary?
Ben Elley, an HR Consultant at Frazer Jones, a specialist HR recruitment firm looks at the relative merits of the qualification and its role in helping HR professionals move up the career ladder. Due to the strategic and commercial development of HR, employers are frequently requesting Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) qualified candidates. […]
What’s the answer? Confidentiality – Controlling the office gossip (continued)
Martin Brewer, is a Partner with the employment team of Mills & Reeve Pauline, there is no need to ask this individual to sign a new confidentiality undertaking in order to reinforce that obligation. Every contract contains an implied confidentiality obligation on the part of the employee and, as you say, there is also an […]
What’s the answer? Confidentiality – Controlling the office gossip
Pauline Martin gets legal guidance this week from Helen Badger, employment law expert at Browne Jacobson and Martin Brewer, a Partner with the employment team of Mills & Reeve on how to stop a gossip spreading the news. We have a member of staff who has worked for the company for over 15 years. She […]
CIPD qualification: Is it necessary? … continued
How can you get qualified?You can consider an educational route that is accessible within a variety of educational centres that will offer a range of full-time, part-time and/or flexible learning courses. With HR growing in importance and popularity, there is an increasing number of universities offering CIPD-accredited courses. University graduates can achieve CIPD status by […]
Colborn’s Corner: Budgeting for success? … continued
But should fear of what might happen stop us from reviewing what we would like to do? In my experience many HR teams only review the benefits provided when an MD or similar asks questions as to why flexitime still exists or what value is gained from providing a benefit such as Private Medical Insurance. […]
Colborn’s Corner: Budgeting for success?
Gordon’s Brown’s recent budget contained a few surprises and doubtless the pundits will be pouring over the detail for some time, if only to come up with predictions as to when he changes job. But what impact does the budget have for HR and can we learn anything from an annual budgeting process? I suppose […]
HRD 2006: Why go?
It’s the largest and most influential conference in the learning and development calendar with impressive speakers including Sir Bob Geldof to boot but is it worth the bother? We invited the CIPD to persuade us. Now in its 21st year, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development’s (CIPD) annual learning and development Conference and Exhibition, […]
The Changing Role of the Trainer
The changing role of the trainer has little to do with costumes, superman or a click of the fingers; Annie Hayes spoke to Martyn Sloman, Adviser, Learning, Training and Development at the CIPD about the challenges. It is a subject that has permeated discussions at almost every level within the profession so what is happening […]
Linking Training to Business Needs: The Secrets of HMRC Revealed…continued
Read on to discover more about business strategy at HMRC, and how learning is transferred in the workplace. HR Zone Q6: How important is it that businesses train their staff?Martin: It is very important – the business is changing all the time and what we expect of managers is constantly increasing and being upgraded. We […]
Linking Training to Business Needs: The Secrets of HMRC Revealed. By Sarah Fletcher
Linda Martin, Head of Learning at HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) spoke to Sarah Fletcher about HMRC’s learning and development challenges, how they measure the success of their training investment and crucially just how they tie in their training to business needs. HR Zone Q1: How has the learning and development (L&D) strategy at HM […]
Modelling Excellence: With NLP
In a preview to her forthcoming talk at the CIPD’s HRD conference, Sue Knight, an international NLP trainer, consultant and author of NLP at Work explores the concepts and explains just why it makes a difference. Christopher Cook won the gold medal for England in the 100m breaststroke in the Commonwealth games in Melbourne this […]
HR Tip: Re-engagement following redundancy
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: We made a man redundant nine months ago but now want to re-employ him. How do we stand, particularly with regard to his redundancy pay? And what is his continuity of service? […]
Member’s Tip: Open recruitment obligations
In this the first of a new series in which we highlight a member’s tip, Nik Kellingley explains the implications of only advertising a vacancy internally, and whether it best protects the interests of the business. If you are using public money to fund a post then you have to advertise the post and your […]
Action Learning: The Linklaters Way
Des Woods, Global Head of Learning and Organisation Development at Linklaters talked to Annie Hayes about putting the action into learning. HR Zone Q1: Why should delegates attend the seminar on Putting the Action into Learning at the CIPD’s HRD 2006 conference?Woods: If you ask successful people, in whatever roles or jobs they do, where […]
Immigration: A brave new world? … continued
Unanswered Questions:The Government estimates that the new scheme will not be fully operational until 2008 at the earliest and it is clear that much more work is needed both on the new scheme and operational issues. The IT, staffing and training and even the space requirements required to ensure that the diplomatic posts abroad can […]
Immigration: A brave new world?
Reed Smith explain the new rules, effective as of 7 March 2006, governing business immigration. On 7 March 2006 the Government unveiled further detail on its proposals to overhaul the UK immigration rules which been in force for over 20 years. The contents of the command paper entitled “A Points Based System: Making Migration Work […]
How Did I Get Here? Massimo Macarti, HR Director, Canon Europe…continued
Keep reading to hear more from HR Director of Canon Europe, Massimo Macarti.6. Will HR survive outsourcing and changes to service delivery?I definitely think so. Outsourcing requires very strong leadership from the client, so for good people with strong knowledge and experience, there’s lots of future. You have to drive outsourcing partners or change the […]
