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Unions help to reduce staff de-motivation and ‘quit rates’ at work
Unions can help to prevent staff feeling stressed and de-motivated by new working practices and reduce the number of staff quitting their jobs, according to a new report published by the TUC this week.
The latest TUC Touchstone pamphlet The Road to Recovery highlights a number of ways in which unions are helping businesses and employees [...]
- Unemployment falls for third consecutive month
- Workplace recreation ‘could fight stress’
- Give us a loo break, says TUC
- Employee loyalty ‘increases’
Council ‘encourages staff well-being’
One UK council has asked local employers to sign up to a challenge which aims to improve their well-being by encouraging them to lead active and more healthy lifestyles.
This week, Reading Borough Council’s sport Reading development team will launch its 2010 Healthy Workplace Challenge
Staff at businesses and organisations in the borough will be invited along [...]
How training interns could boost career chances
Businesses that take the time to offer successful training to their interns could be helping such individuals develop the skills they will need for the rest of their career, it has been claimed.
However, Lisette Howlett, spokesperson for HireScores.com, said if a business is taking "ad hoc" interns from their local college rather than giving a [...]
- Skills to fuel growth in key new industries
- Conservatives pledge 50,000 training places for unemployed
- New skills for new railways
- Recession reduces skills shortages, but experts warn against complacency
Is employment law stifling growth?
Too much employment regulation and legislation may be having a negative impact on the UK’s competitiveness, it has been claimed.
The British Chamber of Commerce (BCC) has suggested many businesses are having to cope with a “relentless flow” of complex employment law, which is also putting the creation of jobs in the future at threat.
As a [...]
‘Boomerang bosses’ in councils must return pay-offs
Councils should have the power to claw back taxpayers’ money paid out to cut ties with their town hall chief if they later get re-hired to another local government job.
Communities Secretary John Denham welcomed the report and made clear taxpayers’ money should not be used by councils to resolve personal differences and called on Local [...]
New targets set to protect vulnerable agency workers
New figures published 11 March reveal that since April the Employment Agency Standards inspectorate (EAS) has won back nearly £200,000 in unpaid wages for agency workers. This is treble the amount clawed back in the previous year.
The latest figures came as EAS published new targets to ensure that vulnerable agency workers get even better protection [...]
- REC to provide keynote address at ‘Managing a Temporary Workforce’ conference
- CIPD: UK has high rate of hidden joblessness
- Job market recovery ’should be celebrated with caution’
- Smart recruiters ‘will consider transferable skills’
CIPD release report on integrating talent management and diversity
The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) have published the report ‘Opening up talent for business success: integrating talent management and diversity’.
This report explores the extent to which employers are integrating talent management, and what can be learnt from those that do. It is aimed at talent management and diversity professionals and all those [...]
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The Agency Workers Regulations 2010 (“the Regulations”) were published in January 2010.
With implementation delayed to 1 October 2011, it may feel like the pressure is off for now. However, whilst there may be time for reflection, it is not a time for inertia. As the cost of the Regulations is estimated to be 0.3 [...]
It’s becoming more and more common to hear the words ‘marketing’ and ‘employer brand’ being thrown around HR and recruitment teams. Against a tough economic backdrop employers have looked long and hard at their cost base with many workforces being trimmed to the minimum. If most FD’s had their way employers would be left with a very few, incredibly talented and equally overworked employees!
Between 2004 and 2009, employers and employees had to grapple with the statutory dispute resolution procedures. These were designed to restrict the number of employment disputes that went before Employment Tribunals. Unfortunately, however, the converse was true. The procedures were so complex and the consequences of failing to comply with them were [...]
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