IIP goes into reality TV
Investors in People (IIP) is behind a new trouble-shooting reality TV show.IIP has sponsored In Good Company, a series that enlists the guidance of some the UK’s most successful business leaders to turn around the fortunes of four small businesses; reports HR Zone’s sister site TrainingZoneThe four businesses featured in the ITV1 series face a […]
Bosses wary of young recruits
Findings show that 81% of employers would be hesitant in employing inexperienced youngsters.The poll conducted by Peninsula employment law firm shows that the majority of employers are reluctant to take on workers in the 16-18 year old age bracket. A huge 76% admitted they believe that youth workers in that age range would be a […]
Employment Relations Bill gets Royal Assent
Royal Assent has been bestowed upon the Employment Relations Bill which aims to update trade union and employment law.Employment Relations Minister Gerry Sutcliffe said:“The Employment Relations Act 2004 builds on the success of our earlier measures to modernise trade union and employment law. It also extends from eight weeks to 12, automatic protection against unfair […]
Dreamers yearn for £37k
The new ‘dream salary’ is £37,000 per year according to findings from the Alliance & Leicester and money is never far from our thoughts says the report. Half of the 2,000 respondents (50%) admit to thinking about money at least once a day with the major earners (£60,000) and above most focused upon it.Workers said […]
Office fraudsters may be holiday shy
Workers avoiding leave are likely candidates for white-collar fraud according to Martin Cunningham Solicitors.“The model employee who comes in early and rarely takes holidays may not be as dedicated as you may think. In fact they’re the most likely candidate for committing fraud in the workplace.“Any business that seriously wants to protect itself from fraud […]
Childbearers face discrimination
More than four-fifths of HR professionals believe that employers think twice before employing women of ‘childbearing age’.The poll by Croner Consulting follows controversial comments by outspoken Godfrey Bloom of the UK Independence Party who said: “No small businessman with a brain in the right place would hire a lady of childbearing age”.Croner’s Richard Smith warns: […]
Feature: Understanding emotional intelligence
Michael Massey, head of EQ Leadership Solutions and author of ‘The Knowledge: How to be an Effective and Emotionally Intelligent Leader’ looks at the theory behind EI and its implications for leadership skills. It was in 1990 that American psychologists Peter Salovey and John Mayer first aired their theory of emotional intelligence (EI). It has […]
BA Chief makes sacking u-turn
Rod Eddington British Airways (BA) Chief Executive has decided against sacking any senior executives despite indications that heads would roll following the August bank holiday flights fiasco.Almost 100 BA flights were cancelled and 10,000 passengers disrupted over the busy bank holiday weekend. The airline apologised to customers and said staff shortages were to blame. A […]
New minimum disciplinary and grievance procedures
In a new series contributed by solicitors Bevans, James Taylor describes the principles that will govern disciplinary and grievence procedures from 1 October 2004.The Government has recently mailed employers about the three steps to disciplinary and grievance procedures – “put it in writing, meet and discuss, appeal” which come into force on 1 October 2004. […]
Launch of £10m Training Fund
Training providers in London can access a new £10m fund aimed at boosting the skills levels of socially disadvantaged groups.The fund, launched by the Mayor’s London Development Agency (LDA) and the European Social Fund (ESF), is aimed at improving the basic skills and job prospects of groups such as those from black and minority ethnic […]
The Way I See It… Train to Retain
Pauline Godley, director of Masterclass Recruitment Ltd, explains why companies have to take responsibility for training their sales people if they are to reap commercial benefits. With the gathering pace of the economic recovery, we are increasingly finding our recruitment clients with a dilemma – on the one hand, they ask us to search out […]
HR Tip: Revealing employee information
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: A debt collection agency has asked for the whereabouts of one of our employees whom we know is notorious for owing money. Where do we stand? A: Whatever your feelings, you must not […]
Feature: The unwritten rules of business extravagance
Where is the dividing line between corporate generosity and unrestrained greed drawn? Criminal defence solicitor Martin Cunningham, a fraud expert, reaches for a blunt pencil. Reports that media tycoon Lord Black spent almost $50,000 of his company’s money on a his wife’s birthday party – and that he and his fellow directors siphoned off tens […]
HR Zone Briefing #206 – Softworld HR & Payroll 2004
================================================================ HR Briefing Issue 206 16 September 2004 http://www.hrzone.co.uk ================================================================ SITE HIGHLIGHTS **** SITE HIGHLIGHTS **** SITE HIGHLIGHTS **** 1. Intellect to showcase products at Softworld 2. Topaz to unveil new products at Softworld 3. Softworld announces speakers 4. HR Tip: Revealing employee information 5. Any Answers – recruitment policy, childcare vouchers SITE HIGHLIGHTS **** […]
Feature: RNID guidelines for DDA compliance
RNID, a charity representing nine million deaf and hard of hearing in the UK offers its guidelines to help businesses ‘take reasonable steps’ to comply with the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) regulations. The deadline for organisations to be compliant with the DDA is upon us. Many organisations remain in the dark about their obligations under […]
New President for Management Institute
Sir Paul Judge, who led the buyout of Premier Brands, is the new president of the Chartered Management Institute.Sir Paul succeeds Gordon Page to become the organisation’s 29th President since it was founded as the British Institute of Management in 1947. Sir Paul’s previous roles include director of Cadbury Schweppes, chairman of Premier Brands, chairman […]
Unemployment at 20 Year Low
Unemployment figures fell by 16,000 between May and July to 1.41 million – the lowest figure in 20 years. The number of people claiming unemployment benefit last month has also fallen, by 6,100 to a 30-year low of 830,200, according to the Office for National Statistics. However, the leap in employment rates was not reflected […]
Women HR Managers Slip Down Earnings Table
Female managers working within the HR sector have dropped down the earnings league table, according to the 30th annual National Management Survey.With an average pay rise of less than 1%, female managers in HR earn an average of £41,045, putting them in sixth place in the female managers’ table compared to second in 2003.Over-all the […]
Case Study: Developing Facilitative Leaders
Leadership thinking has moved beyond the old command and control style to emphasising managers as “facilitators”, developing, guiding and bringing the best out of their staff. Bedfordshire Pilgrims Housing Association, which manages over 10,000 homes in and around Bedfordshire, recently put its 56 managers through a facilitative leadership course and the benefits, it says have […]
The New HR Charter: Part 9 – Unions have no part to play
As someone who cut his HR teeth in the industrial relations arena of the late 1970’s I do not need reminding of how bad industrial relations can get and the damage they inflict on organisations. It is with complete horror, therefore that I see the terrible IR situation not just on the old battlegrounds of […]
