Peter Crush

Prepare now for costs of elder care, warns Tomorrow Project

The cost to business of employees caring for their elderly relatives could be as much as 12 times what it will cost to bail out the financial institutions over the next 20 to 40 years.

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HR should be internal consultants

HR professionals should morph into 'internal consultants', delegates were told at the CIPD Conference in Manchester.

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Croner launches Employment Assist

Delegates at Manchester's CIPD Conference saw the launch of a single IT HR solution that promises to streamline all HR operations into one single platform.

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HR implored to move from 'business partner to business provocateur'

The CIPD launched its much-anticipated Next Generation HR speech last night, calling on the next breed of HR professionals to be the builders of "organisational equity" and to be their organisations'...

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Preach numbers not Powerpoint

CIPD Conference delegates were told to ditch the language of Powerpoint and instead speak the language of Excel.

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Layoffs predicted to slow

Job cuts and hiring freezes could be on the wane according to research from HR consultancy Watson Wyatt.

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Nine ex-ministers write to prime minister urging him to rethink plans to scrap childcare vouchers

Today it has emerged nine ministers have written to the prime minister urging him to rethink his controversial plans to scrap tax-exemptions for childcare vouchers.

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Unemployment stabilises - but not for the young

UK unemployment is now up to 2.46 million, but the 30,000 rise in the three months to September is the smallest rise since May 2008.

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Fewer than one in five businesses measure gender pay gaps

Fewer than one in five (18%) of private companies measure their gender pay gaps, according to research produced today by IPSOS Mori for CIPD/KPMG.

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Recruitment agencies not to blame for NHS failings - but they do need to listen to HRDs more

Plans by the NHS to cut 10% of staff to meet savings of 20 billion by 2014 have been derided by recruitment agencies, who say they are being labelled the scapegoats for the NHS's failings.

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CMI calls for managers to raise their game

The Chartered Management Institute (CMI) has met with representatives from the three main political parties to launch its Management Manifesto, a call for business and Government to make the...

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Employees confused over retirement age

Despite predictions that the number of staff working beyond retirement age will double, research by Croner has found only a third of workers say they envisage working past the age of 65.

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