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InterContinental Hotels Group to recruit 400,000 staff globally by 2015

InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) plans to recruit 400,000 staff over the next four years.

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Accountancy firm HRD spearheads HR consultancy initiative

Menzies, the accountancy firm, has launched an HR consultancy to provide advice to employers and the initiative will be spearheaded by the company's own HR director.

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Alcohol charity urges Government to act on workplace drinking

Alcohol Concern has written to Vince Cable, secretary of state for Business, Innovation and Skills, to call for greater focus on alcohol issues in the workplace, which have a major negative impact on...

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BP offers 250 graduates Olympic work opportunity

BP is to increase its annual UK graduate recruitment by 50%, to nearly 250 graduates, in 2012. ??

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Half of employees view diversity programmes as a PR stunt, according to Adecco

Almost half of UK workers think that employers’ diversity programmes are “only designed to attract good PR”, according to research published this morning from Adecco Group’s Unlocking Britain’s...

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Government issues employer regulation for pensions auto-enrolment

The Government has published a package of regulation to help employers prepare for automatic enrolment into workplace pensions.

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Absence management technology behind the times, says Professor Cary Cooper

While technology has changed the way we work, absence management procedures have not kept pace, creating serious welfare, management and productivity issues, according to the major report released...

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UK employers are ‘on auto-pilot’ for auto-enrolment, according to pensions consultancy report

Employers have failed to take the right steps to assess the true cost of auto-enrolment, according to pensions consultancy, Punter Southall.

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Job opportunities in January up 9% year on year, according to Reed

Job opportunities across the UK increased in January, reversing December’s seasonal decline and showing a 9% increase on the same period last year, according to today’s Reed Job Index report, which...

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Leadership for senior managers tops the list of learning priorities for 2012, finds Henley Business School study

Leadership development for senior managers has, for the first time, become the top priority for learning and development in 2012 according to the Corporate Learning Priorities Survey 2012 carried out...

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CIPD to recruit new chief executive

The CIPD has launched a search to find a new chief executive.

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Cost cutting and consumer-driven healthcare put employees in charge of their wellbeing benefits, says Mercer

This year the health and benefits industry will operate within a context of heightened cost-cutting and consumer-driven healthcare and benefits options that put the employee in charge when it comes to...

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