http://www.hrlook.com/ The definitive HR resource en-gb Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:35:25 GMT Copyright: © Midland HR & Payroll Solutions http://www.hrlook.com/rss.asp http://www.hrlook.com/images/hrlook_tiny.gif http://www.hrlook.com/ Onrec would like to invite you to attend the UK Online Recruitment Conference and Exhibition 2010, taking place on Tuesday 19th October at The Grange St Paul's Hotel, London. http://www.hrlook.com/news.asp?id=072210a.asp
'Ignore the rhetoric' urges Anthony Hilton, City editor of the London Evening Standard. http://www.hrlook.com/news.asp?id=022610e.asp University College Plymouth St Mark & St John has gone live with iTrent, the fully integrated HR, payroll and talent management solution from specialist supplier at MidlandHR.iTrent has replaced two disparate systems previously used to manage HR and payroll at the University College. These systems often presented issues with reporting and daily HR functions, and were also the cause of clear inefficiencies. http://www.hrlook.com/news.asp?id=022610d.asp Speaking at the recent CIPD reward conference at London's Olympia, CIPD president Vicky Wright said: 'We are sleepwalking into an era of old age poverty unless we do something about it.' http://www.hrlook.com/news.asp?id=022610b.asp As the UK scrapes out of its deepest recession since the 1930s, last month's Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) Conference on Employee Engagement www.cipd.co.uk/cande/employee-engagement heard some important business messages. http://www.hrlook.com/news.asp?id=021210a.asp A report published today reinforces the message about the significance of employee engagement initiatives across the private and public sectors. Creating an Engaged Workforce, written for the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) by Kingston University, defines employee engagement as: 'being positively present during the performance of work by willingly contributing intellectual effort, experiencing positive emotions and meaningful connections to others'. http://www.hrlook.com/news.asp?id=012510a.asp The National Minimum Wage for younger workers should be frozen in absolute terms in 2010 to ensure welcome government efforts to combat soaring youth unemployment are not fatally undermined just as the economy is beginning to recover, according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). The call is contained in Platform 2010 - A Recovery That Works, the CIPD's pre-election 'manifesto for work'. http://www.hrlook.com/news.asp?id=010710f.asp The festivities are all over, your waistline has expanded and it's back to work in the coldest and darkest month of the year. Yes that first week back to work in January is officially the most depressing month of the year as a new survey highlights that over 50% of workforces suffer from the January office blues. http://www.hrlook.com/news.asp?id=010710e.asp The severe weather already affecting much of Britain and school closures affecting parts of the country do not necessarily have to mean major problems for employers, suggests the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. A combination of technology and common sense on the part of employers and employees can minimise the impact for many argues the Institute. http://www.hrlook.com/news.asp?id=010710d.asp It's just over two weeks until the CIPD Employee Engagement Conference on 26 January 2010 in London. http://www.hrlook.com/news.asp?id=010710c.asp Engaging London's employees is key to cutting businesses emissions according to a new survey from top London businesses.
http://www.hrlook.com/news.asp?id=112509a.asp October 20 - 22, 2009 Le Meridien Piccadilly, London, UK http://www.hrlook.com/news.asp?id=102009a.asp While job seekers continue to face a tough time in the labour market, there are real opportunities for those already in work to secure development and promotion opportunities, according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). Despite the recession, employers have continued to strive to secure the skills they need - but are turning to retention and staff development rather than recruitment as their weapons of choice. http://www.hrlook.com/news.asp?id=061709c.asp Despite the job casualties among North Sea oil and gas workers, international demand is very much on an upward curve. That's according to engineering recruitment specialist CBSbutler. 'Organisations have learned harsh lessons from the halt on building programmes instigated during the last oil price lull of the late 1980s and 90s and are probably running at about three years behind,' says David Leyshon, managing Director of CBSbutler. 'Consequently, large projects such as those in Nigeria, Croatia and the Caspian Sea are going ahead in the hope that oil prices will be buoyant once the projects are completed.' http://www.hrlook.com/news.asp?id=061709b.asp Official labour market figures published earlier today by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show a further steep rise in UK unemployment in the February-April quarter. John Philpott, Chief Economist at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) described the figures as 'grim but not unexpected' but added that figures for the number of people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance (the claimant count) were 'amazingly good given what we know about the state of the jobs market, though too puzzling to yet be seen as a genuine 'green shoot'. http://www.hrlook.com/news.asp?id=061709a.asp Companies are hastily cutting their work force without taking into account that people will soon be a scarce resource. In the most comprehensive European HR study ever conducted, BCG and the EAPM argue that it is not too late to take action. http://www.hrlook.com/news.asp?id=061209a.asp Times have been hard. First the banking crisis, then the economic crisis, followed by swine flu crisis, the expenses crisis and now a crisis within government. And the chain of events of the last year or so has affected everyone differently. You hear a lot from friends, read even more in the papers and as for the internet, well everything from the end of the world to saying this is the best thing that could have happened. So the only known that I can depend on is what I have personally heard and seen. http://www.hrlook.com/news.asp?id=061109b.asp Business leaders and government are today urged to take a stand against poor people management, which is too often the cause of bullying, conflict and stress in the workplace and a significant factor in the UK's productivity gap. http://www.hrlook.com/news.asp?id=061109a.asp Rockingham Retirement's survey reveals that 80 percent of 50-year-olds are ignorant of imminent increase in pensionable age. http://www.hrlook.com/news.asp?id=061009c.asp While workforces up and down the country are facing deep budget cuts and job losses, a survey by Lloyds TSB Autolease reveals that one in three bosses have yet to cut back on their business expenses and benefits. http://www.hrlook.com/news.asp?id=061009b.asp