Peter Crush

Interview with Ed Sweeny, CEO of Acas

Acas is caught between the feuding Royal Mail and Communication Workers Union, but CEO Ed Sweeney is confident a solution will be found - one way or another.

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Employers take top talent for granted

Companies are taking top talent for granted, according to new research by task force Hidden Brain Drain, with managers commonly working 82 hours a week.

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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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Find pivotal talent, not top talent

The "only way companies will survive" is if HRDs take a five-ten year attitude to talent, according to Row Henson, human capital management fellow, Oracle.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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