Recent human resource articles
January 25 2012 - There are strong, well-rehearsed arguments both for and against the use of
personality testing, but we have identified a particular, and thus far potentially overlooked, risk of discrimination against disabled participants.
January 18 2012 - The unemployment rate stands at 8.4% - up 0.3% over the quarter and 0.5% over the year.
December 19 2011 - One of the most exciting new trends in recent years has been the emergence of the human cloud, as more and more businesses go
online to hire and manage talented staff on an hourly or project basis.
December 13 2011 - Graduate unemployment is at a record level but many organizations say they cannot
find the right talent.
November 25 2011 - Vince Cable, Business Secretary, announced on Wednesday a package of measures intended to
modify the way employers recruit, manage disputes and dismiss staff - while retaining key protections for employees.
October 5 2011 - Stress has been identified as the most significant cause of long-term absence according to this year's
CIPD/Simplyhealth Absence Management survey.
October 5 2011 - The announcement that
the qualification period for the right to claim unfair dismissal will be extended from one year to two years has attracted mixed responses.
May 16 2011 - A TUC analysis of the 206 local authority areas by claimant to vacancies ratio from March 2005 to March 2011 shows
that West Dunbartonshire and East Ayrshire have passed the inner London boroughs to become the UK's worst employment
blackspots.
April 23 2011 - Employers are concerned that they are vulnerable to frivolous or unjustified employment tribunal claims
according to a Conflict Management survey published prior to a recent CIPD conference.
April 7 2011 - The adult minimum wage rate will increase from £5.93 to £6.08 an
hour on October 1 2011.
March 16 2011 - The notion of a 'lost generation' of young jobless people is simplistic, according to the latest Work Audit report on official labour market statistics "Getting the measure of youth unemployment"
from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
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January 19 2011 - Successive Governments have seen public sector HR as either a cost to be managed or a means of dealing
with redundancies, but not as a crucial strategic function, according to a recent CIPD report.
November 18 2010 - As a first step towards a reduction in non-EU migration, the independent Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) has published the required limits on skilled and highly skilled migrant
workers to be admitted to the United Kingdom under Tiers 1 and 2 of the Points Based System in 2011/12.
October 19 2010 - While Britain has made good progress in addressing inequalities and tolerating diversity, significant barriers to a fairer society
October 5 2010 - Women make up 25 per cent of board members in broadcasting companies surveyed, more than double the national average of 12 per cent for FTSE 100 companies.
September 14 2010 - Top five tips on managing a successful career change.
September 8 2010 - 15 per cent of UK organizations have no measures in place to assess the impact
of coaching or mentoring programmes and 68 per cent do not use this approach to address corporate objectives.
September 7 2010 - Nearly half of working parents (44 per cent) in the UK are reliant upon their own parents to help with childcare.
September 7 2010 - Nearly one-third of young professionals lack trust in their employer according to
research from recruitment consultants Badenoch & Clark.
September 2 2010 - 10 per cent of the UK working population (the equivalent of 3.5 million) have no plans to retire and 42 per cent are unable to say at what
age they plan to stop working.
August 30 2010 - Businesses are being warned to ensure they have guidelines in place for misuse of technology in the workplace
after reports that people are spending more than half the day using technology.
August 26 2010 - 65 per cent of graduate recruiters are wary of using social media and one in seven perceives it as
'dangerous'.
August 26 2010 - More than half of British workers access social media websites while at work.
August 26 2010 - Age UK welcomed the Government's decision to consult on abolishing the
default retirement age (DRA) from October 2011.
August 19 2010 - 40 years after the 1970 Equal Pay Act, male and female salaries are converging so slowly in the UK that it will take more than another
five decades to reach equality, according to a report from the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and XpertHR.
August 18 2010 - Employers are failing to provide enough places on schemes that provide on-the-job training, according to the TUC.
August 1 2010 - Research from the University of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores University found that safety
in the workplace has been adversely affected by policy changes relating to health and safety over the last ten years, with reduced levels of
enforcement by the Health & Safety Executive (HSE).
July 16 2010 - Research led by University College, London and published in the
European Heart Journal found that working overtime is bad for the heart.
July 16 2010 - Skilled nurses in regions where private sector pay is better
tend to leave NHS hospitals to work in unregulated sectors such as nursing homes.
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