Employers should not be able to penalise staff for using the toilet in work time, and should provide their employees with clean, modern lavatories, says the TUC this week, as it calls for a change in the law to bring workplace loos into the 21st century.
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HR professionals and managers have been urged to ensure they have procedures in place to help them deal with mental and physical health and well-being in the workplace.
Dr Clare Kelliher, of Cranfield School of Management, said employees who feel safe in their working environment and who are not over-loaded with tasks are more likely to [...]
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New research has revealed hat most employers are happy with the calibre of their employees, with some 93% of the UK workforce thought to be proficient at their jobs. However, experts warned against complacency, saying that employers would need to expect more from, and invest more in, their staff in order to remain globally competitive [...]
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Final salary pension benefits ‘may be thing of the past’
The UK is heading towards a time when nobody benefits from a final salary pension scheme, it has been warned.
New figures recently released by the Pension Protection Fund show a cut in the deficit of final salary pension schemes.
At the end of January 2010, a deficit of £51.9 billion existed, which reduced to £15.1 billion [...]
AGR launches manifesto for graduate recruitment with call for ‘quality not quantity’
The leading voice of graduate recruiters and developers has called on the next Government to abolish the 50% target for participation in higher education and to start a phased increase in student top-up tuition fees.
The Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR) said the measures were vital to raise standards and improve the student experience, and would [...]
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Gender pay gap ‘a multi faceted issue’
Employers are believed to be missing out on talented female workers, it has been claimed – which could lead to suggestions of discrimination in the UK workplace.
The World Economic Forum’s Corporate Gender Gap Report 2010 has been launched and notes that not enough is being done by corporate businesses to close the gap of gender [...]
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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!
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