Linconshire Diversity Day – Price Details
This event is being supported by:The Lincolnshire Training and Enterprise CouncilThe University of Lincolnshire and HumbersideThe Employment ServiceLincolnshire Careers and Guidance ServiceDelegate prices for the event have consequently been kept low as follows:£45 (incl VAT) for the first delegate from an organisation£25 (incl VAT) for subsequent delegates from the same organisation and for all delegates […]
Lincolnshire Diversity Day – Workshop Details
Age Diversity – The Benefits of an Age Diverse WorkforceSue O’NeillDiversity Co-ordinator, B&QDisability – Employers and the Disability Discrimination ActSteve TyrellLincolnshire Association of People with DisabilitiesThe Human Rights Act – Implications for EmployersMary ClarkeEmployment Law SpecialistDLA AdvanceRace and Employment – Impact of the Stephen Lawrence Enquiry Report on EmployersGiselle NiceRace Relations Employment Advisory ServiceGender – […]
Lincolnshire Diversity Day – Conference Programme
0900 – Registration and refreshments0930 – Welcome and Introductions Dr Cheryle BerryDirector of Education and Cultural ServicesLincolnshire County Council 0945 – “Achieving a diverse workforce” Ian HarrisDistrict ManagerLincolnshire and Rutland Employtment Service 1030 – Refreshments1100 – “The legal background to Equal Opportunities/Diversity and Latest Developments” Mary ClarkeEmployment Law Specialist, DLA Advance 1130 – “The Business […]
Lincolnshire Diversity Day – Diversity Conference
How can diversity benefit business?What are the implications of equality legislation?What are the equality issues of greatest importance to employers?These are the questions to be tackled at a diversity conference in the new year at the Lincoln Campus of the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside.The Lincolnshire Diversity Conference, to be held on 31st January 2001, […]
Dotcom, dotbiz and even dotmuseum but no dotunion
"The refusal to grant a new .union top level domain to the internet, to join domains such as .com, is not only deeply disappointing but suggests that corporate America now runs the internet", said the TUC last week. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) meeting in Los Angeles granted applications for seven […]
Ian Harris – Profile
Ian Harris is a Law graduate who joined the Manpower Services Commission (MSC) as an Executive Officer in July 1974 to work at one of the first of the new national network of Jobcentres, opened in King’s Lynn. He went on to manage the Harlow Group of 5 Jobcentres before transferring to the Department of […]
Mary Clarke – Profile
Partner and head of the Manchester Employment team of 11 lawyers.She qualified in 1985 and specialises in employment law, involving both contentious and non-contentious work. She is personally acknowledged in Legal 500 and Chambers Legal Directory as an expert in the field. She advises on all aspects of employment law including employment tribunals – unfair […]
Amanda Jones – Profile
22 years of experience in IT or IT-related financial businesses currently Head of Business Excellence within Service Provision (the technical service provider to the Barclays Group) gender champion for the Barclays Group has led Diversity issues within Service Provision for the past 8 years during which time SP has been recognised for its progress both […]
human resource management
why are org stucture & culture seen as important elements of HRM.show how changes to structure & culture can be facilitated and reinforced by the key HR practice areas. agnes ibaarah
Jobs for the boys? A Guardian Report
It’s still tough for women in the workplace. But, as Liz Stuart of the Guardian reports, many are breaking through to take on occupations which were previously a male preserve.
Flexible benefits on the increase, says Industrial Society
A survey from the Industrial Society finds that twice as many companies now offer flexible benefits schemes for staff, compared to four years ago.The survey, carried out as part of the Society’s Managing Best Practice series, finds that over half of the organisations which responded now offer a menu of benefits to their staff, either […]
Recruitment and Good Practice
Recruitment is by its very nature a discriminatory process, the whole point of the exercise is to select the person with the correct mix of skills, abilities and personality to carry out a work function required by the business or organisation.Various techniques are used by recruiters for a job:Structured InterviewsUnstructured InterviewsAssessment CentresPersonality ProfilingAptitude TestsMental Ability […]
NHS looks to Spain and to refugees to solve recruitment problems
The NHS is looking to Spain and to refugees in this country to try and address the shortage of nurses in the UK.An agreement has been signed with the Spanish Health Secretary to recruit up to 5,000 Spanish nurses. Adverts are being placed in papers and journals in Spain to attract fully qualified to SRN […]
Launched in a blaze of secrecy!
Whilst at the CIPD conference a few weeks ago, TrainingZONE and HR Zone ran a story about the redesign of the DfEE website which had been transformed overnight apparently without any advance publicity or promotion. (See the story)Well, OK, so it happens.But today in a small aside from a DfEE press release it transpires that […]
New measures to help the disabled back into work
Minister for Disabled People, Margaret Hodge, and Social Security Minister, Hugh Bayley, announced on Monday that a national network of Job Brokers is being set up to offer people on Incapacity Benefits the support, guidance, and preparation they need to find paid work and move off benefit dependence. This New Deal will be delivered largely […]
24-hour Jobcentres
Minister for Employment, Tessa Jowell, today agreed to extend the contract with the Employment Service's IT partner, EDS in a deal worth over £500 million. The IT modernisation programme will transform the way Jobcentres do business with jobseekers and employers. Ms Jowell said: "The Employment Service Internet job bank is one of the largest in […]
The Human Rights Act: e-surveillance, dress codes,
Recent government regulations and a draft code from the Data Protection Commissioner have left employers and their staff confused about the use of email at work, says the TUC. At a conference on the Human Rights Act this week (Friday), the TUC will be urging employers to sit down with trade unions to draw up […]
Employee Benefits
I am considering the option of offering a pre paid for service to staff for such things as; stay at home for deliveries,let in workmen, make collections from dry cleaners etc.Its seems to be a growing trend amonst the management consultancies that they provide this kind of assistance to their executives, especially those who travel. […]
"There’s no time to learn” says TUC
Many people work such long hours that they rarely have time for training, the TUC is saying today (Monday) as it calls on employers to give their staff paid time off to study. At a TUC conference later today, TUC General Secretary John Monks will remind delegates that not only do UK employees work the […]
Employers and employees are poles apart
Leading provider of courses in personnel and training (including CIPD courses), Malpas, have published a report revealing current attitudes to psycholgical contracts; the unspoken assumptions between employer and employee.Findings from Malpas’s investigations indicate that their is a substantial difference between the way employers and employees view their activities.Just over half of the employers surveyed felt […]
