budget changes for employee transport (shuttle buses)
A detail that may not have been noticed in the budget and affects employee transportation.At the moment ‘works buses’ have to carry at least 12 seats if the employer is to avoid account for NI and BIK income tax. The tax is not a big burden but the administration could be !We are delighted to […]
Europe needs a science and technical skills observatory
Europe’s prosperity is at risk if its supply of graduate science and technology skills does not meet market needs, according to the authoritative Institute for Employment Studies (IES). In-depth research across the EU for the European Commission, by IES, revealed selective shortages in particular skills such as IT, and under-utilisation of other, expensively developed skills […]
TUC: Parental rights should be a right and not a favour
The TUC is today (Wednesday) calling on the government to stand firm in the face of employer claims that any new legal right allowing parents to change their working hours would be an unnecessary burden on UK businesses.In its submission to the Work and parents green paper released today to coincide with the opening of […]
Will commission based earners take parental leave?
Specialist recruiter, Media Contacts, which places sales people in the publishing, broadcasting and new media industries has responded to Gordon Brown’s pre-election budget.Media Contacts’ MD Hugh Joslin, says that increasing maternity and paternity leave is a good thing, but doubts whether committed sales people – who are largely money motivated – will want to take […]
Employment Law Newswire Issue No. 2
==================================================Lawzone Employment Law Newswire Issue No. 2 12th March 2001http://www.lawzone.co.uk==================================================(In collaboration with Daniel Barnett, barrister, 2 Gray’s Inn Square chambers) Copyright LawZone and Daniel Barnett 2001Editor’s Note=============This is the second specialist employment lawbulletin. The first was very well receivedand we have had many subscription applications.Probably the most important decisionreported since the last Newswire is theHouse […]
Ignorance and fear breed mental health discrimination
Health Minister John Hutton has launched the results of a major research study into mental health discrimination, marking the first stage of a new mind out for mental health campaign combating stigma and discrimination surrounding mental health.The Government’s campaign aims to target key opinion forming groups – such as employers, employees, the media and young […]
Recruitment via e-mail
We currently recruit by sending out application pack via the mail. We are considering changing to despatching application packs via e-mail. Has anyone discovered the pros and cons of moving to e-mail requests? Cathrine Robinson
Can we make a suggestion? Innovate or Die!
UK firms are failing to tap the creativity of their employees, stifling the innovation we all know to be vital.This is the latest in a series of columns written for HR Zone from management education portal FTdynamo.com.More soul-searching in crisis-torn Britain. The leading employers’ organisation, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), reports that UK firms […]
1,200 job losses at Midlands engineering firm
Birmingham based engineering group IMI have announced over 1,200 job losses following a review of worldwide operations. It is exected that around 200 of the job losses will be UK based.Worldwide the group employs some 19,000 staff. The operational review follows a difficult second half last year where earnings from US operations were affected by […]
Child care policies
Hi thereCould anyone share with me their child care policies ?My compnay currently doesn’t offer anything, and we would like to put something in place asap.Any pointers welcome !CheersLindsay Lindsay Rodham
Use of E-mails – Advice to employers
The following article was originally produced by sister site LawZONEHow to teach your employees how to use their emails safely.LawZONE recently reported how e-mails are increasingly being used as evidence in court cases such as employment tribunal disputes. Cisco Systems has come out with the following advice:“1. Set a clear policy that employees should not […]
You gotta think big in banking – especially with executive pay!
Chief executive of UK bank Barclays, Matthew Barrett, saw a 29 per cent jump in remuneration to £1.74m in 2000, it emerged on Wednesday. Mr Barrett received a basic £850,000 salary in 2000 but received additional benefits of £246,000 and an annual performance bonus of £638,000. Barclays said that Mr Barrett’s pay packet reflected his […]
MFR Abolition
The Chancellor’s plans to abolish pension fund Minimum Funding Requirements (MFR) announced as part of yesterday’s budget speech has been cautiously welcomed by the Association of British Insureres (ABI).The MFR was introduced following the Mirror Group pensions scandal to ensure pension fund solvency. However, the requirements are believed to have caused pension fund managers to […]
Budget in Brief
EconomyInflation target will be 2.5%. Growth expected to be between 2.25% and 2.75% in 2001. Net cash debt repayment in 2001 to be £34bn. Net borrowing at surplus of £16.4bn for 2000/1£4bn extra will be made available for the government’s priorities each year. Health and EducationIn total £1bn to hospitals and £1bn to schools over […]
Reader’s Budget Responses
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Interview Checklist
We are looking to stream line our selection process across all divisions and levels, and would welcome examples of Interview Checklists that others have used and been successful.If you can help please e mail me.Denise Halton
Budget Day: How you can keep upto date – follow the beast!
Sister site AccountingWEB will be running its usual high-quality budget reporting service again today. A full round-up of AccountingWEB's budget pages can be found here, and before anyone comments, yes we know that by pure chance the page reference ends with the number of the beast!
Shake up continues in financial services: another 2,000 jobs go
Britannic Assurance, the home service financial services company has announced plans to close its direct salesforce with the loss of 2,000 jobs.Britannic, which is seen as one of the stalwarts of the home service or industrial branch companies has made the move following in the footsteps of Prudential Assurance, their larger competitor, who announced the […]
Minimum wage to rise to £4.10
Secretary of State at the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Stephen Byers, said yesterday that the Government was accepting the recommendation of the Low Pay Commission and increasing the National Minimum Wage to £4.10 and hour from October of 2001.The rate will rise by a further 10 pence in October 2002 to £4.20 an […]
Developing best practice in exployee exits
In preparing a feature on how to learn from employee exits, I am looking for information on the type of information to be collected, the methods of collection used, what degree of confidentiality is required, how and what information to share, types of follow-up etc. etc. I’m also looking at possible links into suggestion systems, […]
