New lay members sought for EATs
A new round of recruitment to the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) was launched by the Government yesterday.The Government is planning to appoint ten new lay members to the EAT. Lay members have an important role to play in reviewing the decisions of employment tribunals and in interpreting legislation across a wide area of employment rights.Those […]
Women workers are key to filling long-term skills gap
Failure to tap the potential of a growing number of women workers will stifle the prospects of many UK businesses – according to the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT). With the number of women workers projected to rise over the next 10 years (whilst rates for men fall)*, the AAT believes that organisations will need […]
Labour market remains strong – Nick Brown
The continued strength of the labour market was welcomed by Minister for Work, Nick Brown. The latest UK Labour Market Statistics show that employment has risen by 13,000 in the last three months and by 190,000 over the last year.The ILO unemployment rate remained unchanged on the quarter at 5 per cent, down from 5.3 […]
TUC conference to end early
The Brighton TUC Conference is to finish early after yesterday’s tragedies in the United States.President of the TUC, Bill Morris, told reporters that he would be fetching the conference to a “dignified close” on Wednesday in order to support the government. The conference will conduct no business and will wind up by 10.00 a.m. BST.The […]
NEWSFLASH: Terrorist attacks in the USA, Blair’s TUC speech cancelled
The Prime Minister Tony Blair, has cancelled his speech to the TUC Congress this afternoon after the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon were hit by passenger aircraft in an apparent terrorist attack.The World Trade Centre twin towers were hit by two planes – believed to have been hijacked from Boston Airport on the eastern […]
TUC: Fewer than half the workforce look forward to going to work
Only 49 per cent of the workforce look forward to going to work on an average day in the UK, according to the first report from the British Workplace Representation and Participation Survey – the most extensive poll of workers and their attitudes to their job, trade unions and their employer conducted for many years […]
Men and women differ on the value of perks
A battle of the sexes is underway in UK workplaces when it comes to perks of the job as men would still rather have a company car than an office crèche, according to research carried out by pension firm Virgin Direct. Virgin's second annual Desk Divide survey looks at what workplace perks UK employers offer […]
Training Database
Has anyone any experience of creating or maintaining information on a training database. I am in the process of creating one and would like to hear from anyone with experience of having created one.Lesley Cairns Lesley Cairns
Hewitt’s TUPE gets lukewarm reception from TUC
Proposals to improve the law covering employees’ rights when the business they work for transfers to a different employer were announced today by Trade and Industry Secretary Patricia Hewitt.The changes to the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981 – commonly known as the TUPE Regulations – aim to make the process of business […]
New guides to work-life balance from the DTI
UK employers and their staff are set to receive advice on the benefits of flexible working and how to improve their work-life balance with the launch of two guides from the DTI’s Work-life Balance Campaign.‘Work-Life Balance: The Business Case’ illustrates how innovative companies have used policies to reduce absenteeism, boost productivity and reduce long hours, […]
CRE: Unions should lead a new approach to supporting employees
Workplace racism can only be rooted out if unions lead a new approach to supporting employees, said CRE Chair, Gurbux Singh. In a speech given today at the TUC conference in Brighton, he offered a lasting partnership between the union movement and the CRE to create change in public, private sector and union organisations, but […]
Visually impaired employee settles bullying case with Barclays Bank
The Guardian reports today that Paul Brookes, a visually impaired employee with Barclays Bank has been paid £20,000 after claiming that he was the victim of workplace bullying.According to the Guardian report 47 year old Brookes kept a “diary of torment” over the last three years of his employment at the bank. During that time […]
New export website for software centre given the greenlight
E-Commerce Minister Douglas Alexander pledged Government support for the UK software industry when he approved the development of a new website dedicated to assisting the sector fulfil its export potential on Friday.The Minister was speaking at Scotsoft 2001, Scotland’s key industry event for the software and computer services sector.He said, “I am pleased to announce […]
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Post Training evaluation
We provide training in our organisation. After a certain period of time we evaluate the same for measuring the impact of the same.Especially in Mangement training we find it hard to evalute the impact of training after a certain period of timeKindly suggest any means of evaluation which is effective and measures the impact of […]
Companies lose best candidates through tardy recruitment procedures
The slow speed of many company recruitment procedures means that they lose out on top quality candidates, according to a new survey.The research, carried out by Parity Software Services, reveals that it takes an average of two months for a company to source, interview and select a candidate. While waiting for the company to resolve […]
Telecoms redundancies soar in 2001
More than 350,000 people have been made redundant from the telecoms and computing industries over the last year – 15 times more than the number last year, according to a recent survey.The figures from US outplacement firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas, quoted in today’s Guardian, reveal that the number of jobs shed by technology firms […]
The police service as a learning organisation
Chris Daniel is an Inspector in South Wales Police and an Associate member of the Institute of Management (IM). The Institute publishes Professional Manager, a monthly magazine sent out to each member. New or recently published books on a broad range of management topics are reviewed in this journal and Chris has looked at ‘Facilitating […]
MPC: Government employment initiatives fail to target older, low-skilled men
The Financial Times reports today that government initiatives designed to get the unemployed back to work are failing to address the needs of older, low-skilled men. The paper quotes research from the Bank of England's monetary policy committee (MPC), which argues that initiatives such as New Deal and the Working Families' Tax Credit are failing […]
US workers put in more and more hours
The Guardian reports that workers in the USA are putting in the longest hours of any country in the industrialised world.The findings come from new research from the International Labour Organisation, which, according to the paper, shows that the average American now spends a week a year more at work than they did ten years […]
