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 […]
How Did I Get Here? Sandy Boyle HR Director Mills & Reeve
Sandy Boyle explains why delivering bad news is the worst part of HR’s job and gives his reasons as to why he’d happily share his lunch table with Peter Ustinov. 1. How strategic is your current role and what does it involve?As the HR Director and an executive board member of a large regional law […]
News in Brief: The week in HR
Catch up on the week in HR with our at-a-glance news round up including why appraisals are failing to deliver, reaction to soaring A-Level results, how CV fraudsters can slip through the net with the help of shoddy pre-employment vetting procedures and the ‘deadwood’ that is breeding resentment in UK plc. W/C 15/08/05A-Level results lambasted […]
The Couch?! Tune in or drop out
Tuning into the airwaves is one way to block out the stresses and strains of corporate life; this week the Couch?! probes at your cultural preferences and ponders why it is that Classic FM gets you reaching for the volume button.A survey by Peninsula employment law firm has revealed that the likes of Tchaikovsky, Beethoven […]
Editor’s Comment: Seeing is believing
Cosseted and sheltered by bucket fulls of regulation, living in the nanny state is all rather cosy but what ever happened to trust, that binding glue of laissez-faire, intrinsic to wedding vows and plastic surgery promises; Editor’s Comment seeks out the cynics. Signing up to the labour market no longer requires an aptitude for decision-making. […]
What’s the answer? Working with Haemophiliacs
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 present their ideas on managing a haemophilia sufferer in the workplace. The question:Does anyone have experience of Haemophilia and have any tips whether adjustments should be made to first aid […]
HR Practitioner’s Diary: Beyond the darkness
Sue Kingston is bowled over this week by intrepid adventurer Steve Cunningham who has been totally blind since he was just 12 years old; read Sue’s extracts from this fascinating seminar to learn why the only barrier to realising potential is discrimination. W/C 1 August 2005It has been a busy week again and I’ve realised […]
Discrimination: All together now
The rights of employees who form part of a same-sex relationship are set to be dramatically strengthened by the end of the year. The Civil Partnership Act will come into force as of December 2005. This Act will allow same-sex couples to form a civil partnership. The process of entering into a civil partnership will […]
Opinion: Breaking down ‘ageist’ barriers
Film Director, Luis Bunuel is credited for once saying, “Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese” During his 83 years, life expectancy almost doubled to about 60 years, today his longevity is something that has become quite normal; Euphrosene Labon looks at our battle with age perception and wonders why workplaces […]
Stressed and nowhere to go?
Paul Avis from Employ-Mend discusses what is needed to ensure that the workplace is a healthy one when it comes to stress and mental health management. I am getting just a bit bored of all this talk about stress. Yes we know that it exists and that it does not, that it is subjective (and […]
