Tim Soare

Budget 2012: Lack of employment law content in the chancellor’s speech ‘not too serious’, says legal expert

The chancellor George Osborne made little mention in his Budget speech yesterday about employment law.

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Budget 2012: chancellor signals death knell of contracting out for defined benefit pension schemes, says pensions consultant

The Government is holding to its plan to reform the State Pension into a single tier scheme for future pensioners as announced last year and will provide a White Paper next spring.

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Budget 2012: Budget for business will help to fuel optimism, says CMI chief

Christopher Kinsella, acting chief executive at the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) proclaimed the Chancellor’s statement today a “budget for business”.

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CIPD: employers still reluctant to hire school leavers, as unemployment among the young increases

On the eve of the GSCE results due to be published tomorrow, employers believe school leavers lack employability skills meaning they are being pushed to the back of the jobs queue, according to the...

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Fun preferred to higher pay in Britain’s workplaces, according to Adecco

Fun is not on the agenda in Britain’s workplaces, despite British workers preferring working in a fun environment, to having higher pay, research published this week reveals.

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Kingston Business School HR students to interview volunteers for the Olympic Games

Undergraduates at Kingston University studying HR management will be at the heart of the Olympic volunteering interview process filtering some of the quarter of a million people who have applied to...

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Business needs to tailor benefits to ensure talent emerges, says Mercer

Cuts in public finance necessitate a ‘tailoring’ approach to benefits to enable companies to trim costs and “give themselves an advantage in the war for talent”, says international consultancy...

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Employees feel pressure to raise their game, says CMI

In tough times, employees feel they have to work harder and that to get ahead in their careers they must go the extra mile, says a major survey published today by the Chartered Management Institute...

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HR need not worry yet about prime minister’s attitude, says PPMA head

HR workers need not worry yet about HR as a frontline job cuts target, Anne Gibson, president of the Public Sector People Managers' Association (PPMA), told HR magazine yesterday.

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David Cameron returns to police HR-bashing

Prime minister David Cameron has made his clearest comments yet on cutting HR jobs within UK police forces as a way of achieving budgeting cuts and strengthening front-line policing (see previous...

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Prime minister weighs in on police HR

In parliamentary debate yesterday, at the session called specially to discuss the urban unrest of the past week, prime minister David Cameron was drawn into commenting on the role of HR in the police....

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Urban unrest makes strong argument for flexible working, says CIPD

There is a good case to bring in flexible working to help businesses and employees cope with the strains imposed by the unrest in some UK cities, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development...

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