Payroll Tip: Medical check-ups and eyesight tests
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 the provision of medical check-ups and eyesight tests a reportable benefit? A: The provision of private medical treatment or private medical insurance is an employment-related benefit and must be reported on […]
Getting it right: Risk assessments for new and expectant mums
Many employers are falling short of their duties under health and safety legislation to assess and manage risks for new and expectant mothers, thereby exposing themselves to potential sex discrimination claims. General dutyMost employers will be aware of their general duty under The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 to assess and […]
Case Studies: E-hiring in a tight labour market
Healthcare group, Denplan and mobile provider T-Mobile share their experiences of meeting the new recruitment challenge with a generous smattering of some ‘Monster’ help. Searching for jobs via the internet has been possible for over twenty years, but in the beginning was restricted to basic bulletin boards accessed by the early adopters – technology aware […]
How Did I Get Here? Rona Cant
Adventurer, explorer, author and development consultant Rona Cant is one of the founders of business and people development specialists, The BIG Question. How did you come to work in training?After I completed the 2000 BT Global Challenge Round the World Yacht Race I developed a new career as an explorer, author and motivational speaker. Other […]
Hard(y) Law Talk: Corporate manslaughter – the ball and chain
Get out of jail card and Corporate Manslaughter or corporate man’s laughter? After four years of fudging, stalling and numerous consultations, let alone redrafting – a law on corporate manslaughter has at last arrived. The Bill, currently before Parliament, seeks to create a new offence of corporate manslaughter, providing a more effective sanction for holding […]
Member wire #114 – Harassment – drawing the line; problem managers
================================================================ HR Zone Members Newswire Issue 114 30 August 2005 http://www.hrzone.co.uk ================================================================ SITE HIGHLIGHTS **** SITE HIGHLIGHTS **** SITE HIGHLIGHTS **** 1. Harassment – a mountain out of a molehill? 2. HR Practitioner’s Diary: The calm before the storm 3. News in Brief: The week in HR – stress drains profits 4. The Couch?! Hanging […]
The Couch?! Hanging on the telephone
Now the Couch?! team don’t mean to seem a bunch of old fuddy-duddies, but we’ve always appreciated good manners. A please and a thank you never goes amiss, and by all means please do hold the door open for us… So you can imagine our concern when we learnt of a new phenomenon this week […]
News in Brief: The week in HR
Catch up on the week in HR with our at-a-glance news round up including the rise in sickies, how stress drains profits and why e-mail is the new tactic for bullies. W/C 22/08/05Sickies soar in the northWorkers in the UK have notched up around 78 million absence days over the last year.Some 13.9 million have […]
Editor’s Comment: Can a leopard change its spots?
Clean sheets are rather hard to come by in a society that pivots around prejudice and discrimination; Editor’s Comment looks at whether we can ever turn a blind eye to spent convictions and skeletons in the closet. Michael Buerk, the veteran BBC newsreader recently commented on the position of women in society, controversially remarking that […]
HR Practitioner’s Diary: The calm before the storm
Sue helps out with a damsel in distress this week and hopes her ‘frogs’ will turn out to be a knight in shining armour and a dab hand on the golf course. W/C 15 August 2005:Not a shooting star in view last week, but lots of interesting things have been happening anyway. Autumn is most […]
What’s the answer? Return to work following sickness
This week Joanne Archer, Senior Solicitor at Clarkslegal LLP and Ranjit Dhindsa, Head of Employment at the Midland’s office of international law firm Reed Smith offer their ideas on returning to work in a clean environment following a bout of sickness. The question:I am looking at gaining best practice advice for the length of time […]
Colborn’s Corner: Who remembers industrial relations?
The current dispute at Gate Gourmet and BA is reminiscent of the true industrial disputes of the 1970’s. Apparently the employer is trying to reduce the influence of the unions and use an industrial dispute as a rationale to reduce headcount, while at the same time the union is allegedly trying to subvert the interests […]
Opinion: All leaders manage, but not all managers lead
Whilst all leaders have the ability to manage, only a small proportion of managers have the necessary skills to become strong leaders. According to Joanna Knight, director with Berkshire Consultancy Limited, this is because they do not possess the three core skills necessary to bridge the gap between maintaining the status quo and driving change. […]
Case Study: HR Transformation at Astra Zeneca
Pharmaceutical giant, Astra Zeneca reveal how they achieved a 15% cost reduction in HR service delivery by transforming the function via their ‘one-team’ approach. The challengeA company-wide drive to focus the business on its core activities of researching, making, developing and selling pharmaceutical products meant that the spotlight fell on HR and other business support […]
Review: Beating IT Risks
Title: Beating IT RisksAuthors: Ernie Jordan and Luke Silcock Publisher: John Wiley ISBN: 0 470 02190 XPages: 278 Reviewer: David EvansPrice: £39.95 Books on risk and risk management are not exactly thin on the ground – Amazon UK lists well over a thousand. However, IT risks are far less well understood – the number of […]
Discrimination in the air
In the light of high profile cases at British Airways and National Air Traffic Services, Iain Patterson, employment law expert at Browne Jacobson, looks at forthcoming discrimination legislation and how companies can avoid falling foul. Obvious discrimination in the workplace is less and less frequent, which all would agree is a positive development. How often […]
Feature: Dangerous employees
A click here and a submit there can get employers and their organisations in serious hot water; Chris Minchin membership manager at FAST Corporate Services highlights the risks associated with PC misuse. Getting the right policies and procedures in place is key if employers are going to protect themselves from some liberal surfing and dangerous […]
Member wire #113 – Rewarding First Aid; Is diabetes a disability?
================================================================ HR Zone Members Newswire Issue 113 23 August 2005 http://www.hrzone.co.uk ================================================================ SITE HIGHLIGHTS **** SITE HIGHLIGHTS **** SITE HIGHLIGHTS **** 1. A carriage clock for Florence Nightingale? 2. HR Practitioner’s Diary: Beyond the darkness 3. News in Brief: The week in HR – ‘deadwood’ breeds resentment 4. The Couch?! Tune in or drop out […]
HR Tip: Expiry of disciplinary warnings
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: How long should disciplinary warnings remain on file? A: Really there are two questions here. For how long is a warning valid, and when should we remove it physically from the file? Ordinarily […]
Jargon Buster: Age discrimination
James Davies, Partner and joint Head of Employment and Incentives at lawyers, Lewis Silkin busts the jargon and offers some practical advice for HR professionals looking to comply with the forthcoming age discrimination regulations. The government has now published draft Regulations which will make age discrimination unlawful. It is likely that (following a period of […]
