February 16th 2010
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Compensation,
Compensation & Benefits,
Conflict Resolution,
Corporate Culture,
Employee Relations,
Employment,
HR,
HR Consulting,
HR Services,
Human Resources,
Labor Relations,
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Acas, the employment relations service, is encouraging UK businesses to prepare for the potential economic up-turn by focusing on employee engagement.
In its new discussion paper Acas highlights the simple procedures that can increase employee engagement in the workplace, to improve staff retention, increase morale and encourage greater productivity.
It also indicates ...
Joslin Rowe has revealed the results of its annual survey covering employment prospects for the financial services sector in Scotland. These latest figures show that more than half (52%) of Scotland's financial service firms which responded to the labour market survey intended to increase their headcount in 2010 by up ...
December 14th 2009
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Careers,
Compensation,
Compensation & Benefits,
Conflict Resolution,
Corporate Culture,
Employee Relations,
Employment,
HR,
HR Consulting,
HR Services,
Human Resources,
Labor Relations,
Workplace
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Acas, the employment relations service, has revealed it has helped businesses avoid more than 2000 employment tribunal claims in just seven months since the introduction of the Pre-Claim Conciliation (PCC) service. Due to its overwhelming success, Acas recently expanded the service to include all major types of workplace issues.
The PCC ...
Joslin Rowe reports demand for HR professionals is steadily increasing with job vacancies in financial services currently at their highest levels of 2009. This shift in the market shows that employers now have the budget to recruit new employees and recognise that with expanding work loads, departments left under resourced ...
Joslin Rowe has revealed new research conducted over a six-month period from March 2009 that shows signs that financial services companies are now finding it difficult to attract new staff to vital business areas, with some teams operating too leanly for any business up tick.
Data collected on recent job offers ...
October 9th 2009
Categories:
Conflict Resolution,
Corporate Culture,
Employee Injury Prevention,
Employee Relations,
Employment,
HR,
HR Consulting,
HR Education,
HR Services,
Health & Welfare Plans,
Human Resources,
Labor Relations,
Leadership,
Management,
Managing in Hard Times,
Training & Safety,
Workplace
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Acas, the employment relations service, is encouraging UK businesses and managers to prepare for the longer term effects of the recession and implement policies and procedures to help cope with mental health issues in the workplace.
In a recently published policy discussion paper, Acas looks at some of the lessons that ...
Joslin Rowe, the specialist recruitment company, has reported a recent noticeable upturn in HR recruitment following a year long slide in City HR job volumes. While most of 2009 has been characterised by a continuing slump in HR recruitment, job volumes reached their nadir during mid June 2009, with a ...
Joslin Rowe has revealed that women working within investment banking and investment management jobs are closer to reaching parity in terms of the percentage of job offers they're receiving versus men, thanks to the longer and more rigorous interview processes put in place by City firms as a consequence of ...
LighterLife, Harlow based weight-loss company, has achieved 'First Class Star Status' with the Best Companies Accreditation 2009 project, after demonstrating healthy work practices and high levels of employee care.
Best Companies Accreditation has been established to acknowledge excellence in the workplace and the great leadership skills, strong company values and positive ...
BT Business and Nortel have revealed new independent research* statistics showing that less than one in ten (8%) of the UK's businesses trust their employees to work out of the office - despite the 42% of workers who are confident that they could do a better job remotely.
The data shows ...
February 12th 2009
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Careers,
Compensation & Benefits,
Corporate Culture,
Employee Relations,
Employment Outsourcing,
HR,
HR Consulting,
HR Services,
Headhunting,
Human Resources,
Jobs,
Recruiting & Retention,
Recruitment
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Jobs for life are virtually non-existent in today's labour market, with the current average lifespan of jobs in the UK being on average just three years, and even as short as 18 months for graduates.
While the majority of workers regularly change their jobs, this is not the case for people ...
Eva Jenkins has found a new intersection for personal and professional success: weight loss. The respected business consultant and personal coach believes that corporate support for employee weight-loss programs
can pay off in bottom line savings. “There’s no denying the strong link between obesity and workers' compensation claims, so bottom-line conscious ...
Joslin Rowe, one of the leading UK financial services recruitment firms, have released research that suggests the type of candidate most likely to be hired into a temporary product control job is going to change, following a warning from the Financial Services Authority (FSA) that firms need to maintain their ...
Dubai Holding, has announced that Dubai International Capital LLC (‘DIC'), its international investment arm, has been ranked in the top ten percentile, against regional and global benchmarks, in the TRI*M 2007 Employee Satisfaction Survey. TRI*M is a global leader in customer stakeholder management research, and part of TNS, a global market information and insight ...
August 29th 2008
Categories:
401k & Retirement,
Careers,
Compensation,
Compensation & Benefits,
Conflict Resolution,
Corporate Culture,
Corporate Governance,
Employee Injury Prevention,
Employee Relations,
Employment,
Employment Investigation,
Employment Outsourcing,
Executive Search,
Gender Equality,
Government Agencies,
HR,
HR Consulting,
HR Education,
HR Services,
HR Software,
HR Solutions,
Headhunting,
Health & Welfare Plans,
Human Resources,
Human Resources Law,
Jobs,
Labor,
Labor Relations,
Layoffs,
Leadership,
Management,
Managing in Hard Times,
Motivation & Rewards,
Networking,
Outplacement,
Outsourcing,
Payroll,
Payroll Services,
Recruiter,
Recruiting & Retention,
Recruitment,
Resume,
Salary,
Staffing Services,
Team Building,
Training & Safety,
Unions,
Wage,
Workplace
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EPR Human Resources News is a new blog, part of EPR Network, that is going to be focused on and will be covering the human resources news and stories from press releases published on EPR Network.
EPR Network (EPR stands for express press release) is one of the nation’s largest press release distribution networks on Web. The EPR’s nationwide network ...
