Free redundancy e-learning from Acas
Acas has developed a free online learning package to help businesses and organisations best manage redundancies in the workplace.The course covers topics including:* redundancy – where do I begin?* statutory consultation requirements;* undertaking individual consultation;* the employer’s obligations to employees facing redundancy;* statutory and voluntary information requirements.The e-learning course also gives a definition of redundancy […]
Senior nurses could earn £80k
Agenda for Change brings in tabled reforms to NHS workers’ pay today.The reforms will benefit more than a million NHS staff and are part of the biggest job evaluation exercise ever undertaken that will see staff matched to a new pay band and get fair reward for the jobs they do.Changes include: the NHS minimum […]
Businesses fear parental rights boost
Government plans to extend paid maternity leave from six to 12 months is alarming businesses who fear a productivity lag and a hit on profit levels.Sixty-one per cent of businesses polled by Croner Consulting, said the proposals would impact on their bottom line. Nearly two thirds also reject recommendations to increase paid paternity leave. Plans […]
Commuters score higher stress levels than fighter pilots
Even short commutes induce higher stress levels than those experienced by fighter pilots going into combat and police officers facing rioting mobs.The research, commissioned by Hewlett Packard reveal that heart rates and blood pressure rose rapidly for those on the commute to and from work.‘Commuter Amnesia’ a condition by which weary travellers temporarily switch off […]
HR Tip: Making rules work
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: Our employees have little respect for company rules. What can we do? A: You should first check that your rules are relevant and necessary, and that they are easy to understand. If not, […]
Focus On: HR Specialists – Jon Young, Head of HR at Saffery Champness
Trained as an engineer, Jon Young is perhaps an unlikely candidate for the HR profession; a personal tragedy triggered a move from production management to HR – a change of course that was to be the making of Young who has headed up the HR division of accountancy practice Saffery Champness for ten and a […]
Information & Consultation
By HRZone member Sandra Beale of SJ Beale HR Consult. To promote mutual trust between employer and employee, increase flexibility of business, improve competitiveness, align training and development to business needs and increase ability of business to anticipate risk – these are just some of the aims of the Information & Consultations Regulations 2005 being […]
New qualifications framework promises to cut confusion
A brand new framework for all qualifications – to include employer-led training – is being put to public consultation.The Qualifications and Curriculums Authority (QCA) says its framework would mean: * A clear structure for recognising learning and qualifications * Smaller packages of learning units that can be accumulated and transferred easily between qualifications and awarding […]
Outsourcing will kill IT departments
Shocking findings from a new poll reveal that 72% of end user companies and 82% of supplier organisations believe outsourcing will finish off IT departments for good.The poll was conducted at the National Outsourcing Association’s (NOA) recent summit.Martyn Hart, chairman of the NOA commented:“Even though this may seem like a blow to the IT industry, […]
Jaguar workers vote on strike
Jaguar workers are being balloted over strike action over the owner Ford’s decision to end production at the Browns Lane plant. On Saturday, 5000 people, including Jaguar workers from Browns Lane and other plants, their families and supporters marched through Coventry in protest at the planned closures, which threaten over 1000 jobs. Many demonstrators were […]
Member wire #76 – HRZone meets the new CIPD President
================================================================ HR Zone Members Newswire Issue 76 30 November 2004 http://www.hrzone.co.uk ================================================================ SITE HIGHLIGHTS ***** SITE HIGHLIGHTS ***** SITE HIGHLIGHTS 1. HRZone meets the new CIPD President 2. Q&A learndirect Chairman, John Weston talks to HRZone 3. HR Tip: Making rules work 4. The Couch?! Gets dunking 5. Any Answers: overtime pay, searching workers, medical […]
Feature: HR grows Chartered Surveying Practice
Until about four or five years ago Donaldsons, a traditional Chartered Surveying Practice, had fallen into a state of atrophy; Alan Geaney HR Director who joined the firm in recent years was charged with helping the business deliver its strategy by moving it and its staff into the 21st century. It isn’t easy putting a […]
Q&A: learndirect Chairman, John Weston talks to HRZone
In this Q&A, John Weston of learndirect tells HRZone about the ongoing challenges his organisation faces, what he believes is the importance of the HR function and his thoughts on what the overall people strategy should be for UK Plc. Q1. What is your main role at learndirect?A: I have been Chairman of the Board […]
Review: Most People Only Try I Make Sure
Title: Most People Only Try I Make SureAuthor: Karl George Publisher: Anderson KBS LtdISBN: 0-9544896-0-8Price: £7.99The cover claims that this book is essential reading for people thinking of starting a business and those already running a small or medium sized enterprise. Having recently started my own business, I was interested to see what I could […]
TUC urge employers to improve HIV and AIDS policies
Growing numbers of HIV sufferers have spurred the Trades Union Congress (TUC) to demand more action from employers to introduce clear and effective HIV and AIDS policies in the workplace; the call comes ahead of World AIDS day to be held on 1 December. Official figures from the Health Protection Agency show that 53,000 people […]
A quarter of workers plan to quit in 2005
One in four British workers are planning on quitting their jobs in the New Year; according to a new survey.The YouGov survey, compiled on behalf of Human Capital Management software vendor Zynap shows that staff intend to move on just after Christmas.Just over half (59%) are already looking for new job opportunities and a shocking […]
The Couch?! Gets dunking
This week The Couch!? has a sit down and nice cup of Rosie Lee (the solution to all problems, a cultural symbol, a national obsession – Doesn’t it make you want to swell with pride?). No problems to report but having watched all this sport on television this week we all feel a bit exhausted. […]
Feature: HRZone meets the new CIPD President
As the former cabinet secretary and ex-head of the Home Civil Service, Lord Wilson of Dinton has relied upon solid people-management skills for much of his impressive career; in a frank interview the new CIPD President talks openly about the ongoing challenges for the HR function and explains why it must shake off its ‘woolly […]
UK employee engagement levels at rock bottom
A new survey reveals that workers in the UK are the least emotionally attached to their companies and most likely to move on when compared to staff in other countries.According to the researchers, ISR, a global consultancy, employee engagement measures the extent to which employees identify with, are motivated by and are willing to expend […]
‘Massive’ computer failure hits DWP
A huge computer failure has caused chaos at the Department for Work and Pensions, according to reports.Payment of existing benefits has not been affected, but staff have struggled to process new and amended claims, BBC News Online said.The BBC said it had been told that about 80% of the DWP’s network, used for millions of […]
