Organisations need to address their reward strategies in order to ensure that talented individuals remain engaged with the firm and willing to work hard, a new report has suggested.
The survey by Chiumento found that leaders who motivate and inspire need to be developed, which could see effective rewards levied in order to encourage workers to [...]

The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has joined with the government to offer up to 10,000 graduates support through initiatives such as internships in small and micro organisations.
Prime minister Gordon Brown said that even in the current economic climate, a new generation of young Britons will be inspired to be ambitious and join enterprises through [...]

The Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has pledged to raise the National Minimum Wage every year, should Labour be reelected, but to clamp down on wage rises in the public sector in efforts to reduce Government spending.  The news comes as employers face the 1 October deadline for increases in the current Minimum Wage limit and [...]

Mediation is becoming more and more important to HR professionals as a method of resolving workplace disputes and restoring working relationships. Although it has previously been viewed as a soft option, mediation is now fast becoming the preferred method for resolving workplace conflict. Why? Because it really gets results.

Organisations need to achieve optimal performance levels to survive the current economic downturn, as these will be able to adapt the best to changing market conditions, a new report into HR claims.
The report by Chiumento states that managing to increase the output of people, rather than costs, is a skill which can make a company [...]

Work & Pensions Secretary, Yvette Cooper, has announced that the original target for Local Employment Partnerships would be trebled from 250,000 to 750,000, when addressing the Labour Party conference in Brighton.
Highlighting the success of the scheme, she said: “Now we will treble our original plans to help a total of over 750,000 people into jobs [...]

An employment tribunal has ruled that a Cumbrian probation worker should receive compensation of £93,000, a newspaper reports.
Steven Collingwood, 40, was so overworked that he suffered a breakdown and an earlier employment tribunal had ruled that he was a victim of harassment and disability discrimination during his time with the service in Carlisle, local newspaper [...]

An increasing number of employers are using coaching for their training and development, a survey by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) shows.
The finding comes despite tighter training budgets and was not expected because of the current economic climate, the organisation claims.
The majority of coaching is for leadership development and performance management, therefore [...]

Putting in place a minimum price for alcohol would help improve absence management as fewer days would need to be taken off work, delivering economic benefits, a new study has revealed.
Research commissioned by the Scottish government and carried out by Sheffield University showed that introducing a minimum price of 40p per unit, along with a [...]

The Department of Health has ordered Sandwell and West Birmingham Trust to pay a health worker £370,550 plus a further £24,000 for every year of his life after he made a claim that working in the NHS caused him stress, a newspaper has reported.
Spokeswoman for the City Hospital, Jessamy Kinghorn, told the Birmingham Post that [...]