Jobseekers warned to 'look beyond basic pay' to combat unemployment

As unemployment levels remain at their highest for a generation, Office Angels has urged jobseekers to look beyond basic salary offered for a role and consider all of the benefits that come with a...

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Employee wellbeing at the Olympic Park is the strategy behind its impressive health and safety

Research by CIPD and others has demonstrated the importance of employee engagement for business performance.

Western Europe has world's best statutory holiday entitlements

Workers in Western European countries, on average, have access to the greatest amount of statutory paid holiday in the world.

HMRC writes to fashion houses, to stop exploitation of interns

Fashion houses have become the latest targets of an HM Revenue & Customs campaign aimed at ending the “exploitation” of interns.

OFT refers private medical insurance industry to Competition Commission

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has proposed to refer the market for privately funded healthcare services in the UK (PH) to the Competition Commission (CC) for a market investigation.

State of flux in eurozone piles pressure on employers' benefits strategy

Although the concept of a single European currency has been kicked about since at least the Second World War, it is hard to believe that 2012 marks 20 years since the establishment of the euro by the...

'Don't ditch the Christmas bash - you'll damage productivity for next year', FPB warns bosses

Employers have been warned do not ditch the “all important” Christmas party the sake of a few pounds.

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Abolishing minimum wage is not the answer to kick-starting the economy

With the gloomy economic forecast the Government is looking for ways to help the nation’s finances recover, but the chancellor George Osbourne’s recent Autumn Statement came under criticism for not...

Hot topic: sign off the sick note?

David Frost, former director general, British Chamber of Commerce and Dame Carol Black, national director for health and work, have presented to the Government their independent review aimed at...

Morgan McKinley: financial staff predict a drop in their bonuses as job availability wanes

A third of financial professionals expect lower bonuses next year, according to Morgan McKinley, as job availability drops by 29% on November 2011.

Remploy launches Government funded service for mental health and work

Remploy’s Employment Services has launched the UK’s first ever Government funded mental health in work support service.

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Employers must put in place stronger links between pay and performance, says CBI

The CBI has called for action to boost the link between executive pay and performance to further strengthen the current system of corporate governance.