Topping the bill at Brighton TUC: Public services and manufacturing
Private sector involvement in public services and Britain’s recession hit manufacturing sector are set to headline debate at this year’s Trades Union Congress in Brighton. The final agenda, published on Wednesday also sets the scene for debate on the youth rate of the minimum wage and a review of the Employment Relations Act.Secretary of State […]
Union Demands action to save Fujitsu Skills in the UK
MSF, the union for skilled and professional people, today called on Fujitsu to implement a social plan to retain key IT skills in the wake of the company’s announcement of 16,000 world-wide job losses. The union which represents many of Fujitsu’s 10,000 UK ICL workforce is calling for an innovative approach to reflect the company’s […]
Employers are failing to control the causes of work-related asthma
An article in the latest edition of Hazards magazine, reports that employers are failing to control the causes of work-related asthma. As a result, 20 people a day needlessly develop this debilitating and potentially life-threatening condition.The TUC is calling for a legally binding Approved Code of Practice (ACoP) to set out in detail what employers […]
Manufacturing pay kept in pay by global pressures
Manufacturing pay awards are continuing to be overshadowed by rises in the service sector, the latest CBI pay databank survey shows. Manufacturing pay settlements stayed at 2.9 per cent in the three months to July. Meanwhile, service sector pay awards averaged 4.6 per cent in the three months to July, compared with 3.9 per cent […]
Nobody is indispensable – are they?
FTdynamo comments on our reluctance to take holidays or time off work, especially as there is now a role-model to show us how!We all know the script. It’s a 24/7, 365 days a year world. The markets never sleep. Holidays are for wimps. Well, think again.The Leader of the Free World is taking a month […]
Some people are stupid?
Manager Steve McMahon, at Greater Manchester recruitment agency LMR says silly answers on application forms could stop you getting a job reports news agency Ananova.McMahon’s advice came after a series of application forms showed what he described as people having their lights on but no-one at home. His examples include the following: the lorry driver […]
Employee Relationship Management
Lynn Fraser of The Wayland Partnership is the contributor of the following guest article which follows last week’s articles on Managers and communicationWhether the economy slows down or not, we have all learnt too much to turn our back on the value of getting and keeping a talented, knowledgeable, flexible workforce. To do this we’re […]
Four ways to put the theory of Employee Relationship Management into action
Lynn Fraser of The Wayland Partnership is the contributor of the following guest article which follows last week’s articles on Managers and communicationEmployee Relationship Management means applying the principles of Customer Relationship Marketing to your relationship with your employees. It means treating employees as individuals and developing a long-term, evolving relationship with them based on […]
REC accuses TUC of inaccuracy on Fixed Term Workers Directive
The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) has criticised the TUC with the following: The Government is currently considering how to best implement the Fixed Term Workers Directive. The TUC’s press release in relation to this has somewhat broadened and blurred the issue in relation to temporary workers and contains a number of misleading statements that […]
NAPF agrees that IPPR claim that ‘government pension policy is unravelling’ adds usefulness to debate
The Government’s current pensions policy is at risk of unravelling, according to a report launched by the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR), the UK’s leading centre-left think tank. The complexity and cost of the proposed Pension Credit and doubts over whether Stakeholder Pensions will reach their target group seriously threaten the sustainability of the […]
Business welcomes A level results and backs AS levels
The rise in A-level and advanced GNVQ passes is good news, and the positive results for AS-levels show the reforms aimed at enabling students to gain a broader range of qualifications were right, said the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) after the results release on Thursday. John Roberts, Chairman of the CBI's Education and Training […]
CBI expresses disappointment with government plans for maternity regulations
The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) will today (Friday) criticise a government plan for reducing the business burden of maternity regulations, saying ministers have not gone far enough. It will publish its submission to a government consultation on the administration of new laws on the employment of working parents. The submission points out that simplification […]
Equal pay for like work
The Equal Opportunities Commission has launched new pages on its website titled Equal pay for like work.Offering sections as follows:Rights tells you what your rights are. Questions contains some commonly asked questions. Case Decisions contains key legal decisions.The Law section covers the laws which give you rights. Taking it Forward helps you decide what to […]
The effectiveness of employment equality policies in the UK
Research evidence from a recent International Labour Organisation report shows the increasing differentiation between ethnic groups in the character of their employment experiences. It also shows that despite the success, both educationally and in employment terms, of large sections of Britain’s ethnic minority communities, when judged alongside their white peers they are still seen to […]
Changing spots? Will closer working with line managers open the way to the top for HR?
Contributed by Niall FitzGerald of HR search and selection firm Courtenay, this article looks at the changing relationship between HR professionals and line managers.According to David Ulrich, professor of business at the University of Michigan at a London seminar, HR managers can make a real contribution to a company by seeing themselves as “architects” with […]
The war for talent
The following article, written by Wilf Altman, a corporate communications adviser and leading business journalist who regularly writes for The Times, Daily Telegraph and London Evening Standard, highlights the need to prepare for massive talent shortages in the future. Finding and retaining the right staff is an important issue for all companies. Despite talk of […]
Employment NTO: Qualification structure consultation
The Employment National Training Organisation (EmpNTO) have released a consultation document for proposed changes in the personnel qualification structure.Structures have already been agreed in learning and development, health and safety and for trades unions representatives, but the NTO are seeking responses on the personnel qualification structure by 17 September. The consultation is available at the […]
Record results in latest exam figures
School Standards Minister at the Department for Education and Skills, Stephen Timms today congratulated this year’s A Level, Advanced GNVQ, Advanced Vocational Certificate and AS Level candidates on their exam results. He praised students for their hard work and success, and thanked teachers, lecturers, parents and examiners for their vital contributions.The results show that: For […]
Safety…… Backroom to Boardroom ?
Contributed by Neil Jones of Macmillan Davies Hodes who acts as careers advisor to the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH), this article asks serious questions about British managements’ ability to see the benefits of health and safety.Some years ago, the following question appeared on a Cambridge moral philosophy paper:- “Ignorance or Apathy, which […]
Recruitment
This page indexes the various information and resource services currently available throughout HR Zone on the subject of Recruitment. It is one of several Professional Themes where we are categorising the services available from the site.Resources:Within the HR Zone Resource Centre there are a number of dedicated areas relating to Recruitment:Blackwell’s Bookstore list93 books containing […]
