Payroll Tip: Employee making purchase on company credit card
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: What procedure should be used when an employee makes a purchase using the employer’s credit card? A: When an employee makes a purchase in a shop, restaurant or petrol filling station for example […]
How Did I Get Here? Corinne Spencer, Towry Law
Like many before her, Corinne Spencer’s route to HR wasn’t planned but having picked up the reins as HR Director for Towry Law Group she continues to crusade for better management and recounts her frustrations with bullies and poor direction – read on to find out more. 1. What is your current job title? Briefly […]
How to: Employ foreign workers
Neil Gouldson, head of employment law at national law firm Rowe Cohen, reminds employers to consider the appropriate regulations when recruiting overseas. A survey recently published by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) found that more than one in three firms had to recruit from abroad last year because they could not find […]
Editor’s Comment: Hiding behind the arras
E-mail that illustrious invention of the e-age has allowed the timid and not so bold to cloak their fears of ‘face-to-face’ by providing an alternative channel to vent their true feelings; Editor’s Comment looks at whether this growing e-boldness is no better then Shakespeare’s Hamlet in which we learn of Ophelia’s deception from behind the […]
News in Brief: The week in HR – W/C 20/06/05
See our at-a-glance round-up of all the latest HR news including skills shortage increase need for training, why senior business leaders are kept awake at night, sickies on the rise, organisations get ‘behaviour’ they deserve and how illegal workers could soon wind bosses up in jail. Skills shortages increase need for trainingEmployers are recruiting less […]
HR Practitioner’s Diary: Fingers in the till
This week, Sue Kingston turns sleuth detective when she helps a client uncover a loose fingered accountant who appears to have had their fingers in the till. W/C 13 June 2005:13th hey? – lucky for some, unlucky for others! Human Resources or detective – that is the question? Fingers in the till!About 18 months ago […]
What’s the answer? Quashing ‘sickies’
In the third of a new series ‘What’s the answer?’ we ask two experts to provide their solutions to your problems; this week Nicholas Snowden, Senior Solicitor at Clarkslegal LLP and Peter Duckitt, HR Consultant present their ideas on how to curb the growth in ‘sickies’. The question:What rights do we have as employers to […]
Case Law Digest: When expletives get expensive
Whilst aggressive leadership is a widely accepted route to managerial success in certain working environments, it is often judged unacceptable by Employment Tribunals. The recent sacking of St Helens Rugby League coach Ian Millward, for a string of allegations including the use of abusive language towards a fellow employee, has raised questions about the role […]
Lobbying Tales: Battle on the Eastern front
The importance of effective recruitment for employers and for the UK economy is increasingly recognised. At the same time European regulations which do not take into account the peculiarities of the UK labour market continue to pose a real threat to the provision of effective and flexible resourcing solutions. As a result, the Recruitment & […]
CSR and beyond: Should HR care about ‘Non’ & ‘Nee’?
Leo Martin founder of the GoodCorporation looks at the importance of the recent overwhelming rejection of the EU constitution by France and the Netherlands and explores what it means going forward for HR professionals. This recent vote highlights the extremely divergent views that exist within the EU about the role of business in society. In […]
HR Tip: Is stress a disability?
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 stress a disability? A: Stress certainly is an illness and you should study carefully the guidance published by the Health and Safety Executive to determine how to minimise and deal with […]
Salary errors – recovering overpayments
Overpayments and salary errors are costing businesses millions of pounds a year, in our latest article we looked at why it happens – here Ranjit Dhindsa, Head of Employment at the Midland office of International law firm Reed Smith looks at how to recover those salary slip-ups. Overpayments can be made in a variety of […]
Review: Buying Information Systems
Title: Buying Information Systems: Selecting, Implementing and Assessing Off-The-Shelf SystemsAuthor: David James Publisher: GOWER ISBN: 0566085593Price: £49.50Reviewer: Stephen JonesHow should you approach the purchase of packaged business information systems? Most managers will only be involved in this once or twice in their career. David James is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of […]
How Did I Get Here? Mark Burch, Crown Prosecution Service
‘Legs eleven’ and ‘Naughty forty’ – as a former Bingo caller, Burch certainly showed an aptitude to numbers but never thought in his wildest dreams that one day he’d be working as the Head of Reward and Performance for a slightly more sober organisation, the Crown Prosecution Service – here’s his story. 1. What is […]
Editor’s Comment: The recruitment catwalk
Liars are more likely to land a job than ‘honest Jims’ and joining the rogue traders at the front of the jobs queue are those with a Danny De Vito height advantage; Editor’s Comment looks at why our recruitment methods are as prehistoric as the woolly mammoths.By Annie Hayes, HRZone Editor It has been claimed […]
News in Brief: The week in HR – 13/06/05
See our at-a-glance round-up of all the latest HR news including signs of a cool down in the jobs market, fathers yearn for more baby time, unhappiness clouds HR function, HR missing out on full IT potential and why workers in Cambridge are the healthiest commuters. Signs of cool down in jobs marketThe UK labour […]
The Couch?! Interview nightmares
The Couch?! team received news this week that a boss in Glasgow recently held a job interview naked in order, he says, to satisfy his boredom. Since his unveiling he has been given three years probation and placed on the sex offenders’ register.Neil Gouldson, employment law expert at Manchester law firm Rowe Cohen says the […]
HR Practitioner’s Diary: Secrets of interviewing
This week our HR Practitioner rescues a business from insolvency, reveals the secrets of her interviewing process and finds love has green fingers. W/C 6 June 2005Another fairly hectic week which involved a project indirectly linked to HR, but at least I’m adding value to the clients’ plight, read on:Soft skills of HRA client who […]
Colborn’s Corner: What’s in a name?
Okay, so we’ve all heard the one about HR standing for Human Remains, but how important are titles to us and what do they say about the role of HR within an organisation? Over the years the terminology has shifted from terms using ‘welfare’ through to ‘labour’ and then onto ‘personnel’ and titles using variants […]
Opinion: Recruitment – breaking the churn cycle
“The current recruitment model not only perpetuates a wasteful attitude to human resources, but also risks overlooking, and therefore not securing, the highest quality candidates.” In the second of a three part series, Kevin Kerrigan, managing director, SHL (UK) discusses how businesses can build a more effective supply chain based on agreed competencies.The first part […]
