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Acas reports 15% rise in disputes over the past year

Acas has seen a significant increase in demand for its help resolving large-scale disputes in the past year.

CIPD warns Government and unions to "stop squabbling" over pensions

Government and unions need to move quickly beyond squabbling over inevitable changes to public sector pensions, and on to a shared agenda of promoting the valuable and substantial benefits of pensions...

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Kenexa research dispells myths about generation Y

Millennial workers are often depicted as a unique and hard-to-manage generation, however a study published yesterday claims that isn’t the case.

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Employees call for social networking to be banned in the workplace

More than two-thirds of UK workers believe access to social networking sites should be banned in the workplace, according to new research from UK job site, reed.co.uk.

Forum of Private Business lambastes Government over continuing bureaucratic entanglement

The cost of red tape to small business has reached £16.8 billion, despite government schemes to remedy the problem, argues a report from the Forum of Private Business.

Not out of the woods: cautious reaction to 0.2% Q2 growth in GDP

The UK's GDP in the second quarter of 2011 was up 0.2% on the previous quarter, and up 0.7% on 2010, according to preliminary figures released this morning by the Office for National Statistics.

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Youth unemployment/inactivity a mixed picture, says ONS survey

Unemployment as a proportion of all 16-to-24-year-olds rose during the recession of 2008-09, but less sharply than the rise in the youth unemployment rate, which measures unemployment as a percentage...

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With three months to go, employers still not ready for Agency Workers Regulations

With less than three months to go until the Agency Workers Regulations (AWR) come into force, research carried out by recruitment consultant Reed shows the majority of businesses are still not...

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CIPD to open Asian office in Singapore

The CIPD is poised to open a base in Singapore, over the next month, in a bid to expand its global reach.

Employers concerned staff are not ready to fund their retirement, survey reveals

Less than a quarter of employers believe their staff are aware of the various retirement income options that are now available.

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Reported fraud in UK business appears to be on the decrease, according to BDO

Reported Fraud in the UK has reached a plateau, according to accountancy firm BDO's six-monthly update, suggesting that the UK authorities have reached the limit of their ability to prosecute...

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Growing number of employers use social media - with no policies to manage it

Nearly half of all businesses do not have social media and networking policies in place, despite the fact that three quarters use social networking for business purposes, according to a survey by law...

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