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HR Excellence Awards 2012 – Best HR Team, Not-for-Profit/Third Sector: AmicusHorizon

In the quest to find excellence in HR, the judges believed the entry from AmicusHorizon’s HR team hit the mark because of its passion and commitment to the organisation.

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HR Excellence Awards 2012 – Most Innovative Use of Technology: Deutsche Bank

Deutsche Bank is a large and complex organisation and the gap between a new recruit receiving a job offer and starting work can be anything between two weeks and three months across geographies.

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HR Excellence Awards 2012 - HR Director of the year: Darren Hockaday, HR director, London Overground

A deep understanding of socio-political and economic issues, a decisive and pragmatic approach to building effective and long-term relationships with unions and a systematic and effective approach to...

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HR Excellence Awards 2012 – Best Workplace Diversity: Irwin Mitchell

Irwin Mitchell (IM) is proud to celebrate the diversity of its people, its customers and the areas in which it operates.

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HR Excellence Awards 2012 – Most Effective Use of Internal Communications: AmicusHorizon

When struggling charitable housing association AmicusHorizon set out its vision for the future in 2008, it was a self-confessed “pants place to work for” and “awfully average”. This year, it is the...

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HR Excellence Awards 2012 – Best Use of CSR in HR: AmicusHorizon

As a housing association, AmicusHorizon’s vision is to change people’s lives through the work it does by helping society’s disadvantaged and vulnerable people find homes in challenging circumstances....

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Employment tribunal system headed for breaking point, leaving employers in limbo, finds EMW

The employment tribunal system backlog is heading towards breaking point, according to the latest available data, EMW, the commercial law firm, has worked out.

Internal recruitment: right or wrong?

One of the remarks often bandied around the workplace is “people are critical to the business”. Wrong! You need to re-write that to “the right people are critical to the business”.

ECJ rules staff that get sick on annual leave are entitled to corresponding paid leave when they recover

The European Court of Justice has ruled that workers who fall sick during their annual leave are entitled to take corresponding paid leave at a later date, irrespective of when the period of ill...

The end of all silos? Equalities minister pledges to support businesses to take the right steps to promote diversity

“Different organisations face different challenges in promoting equality and need to find the best solution for their business,” the minister for equalities Lynn Featherstone has said.

NAPF publishes employer guides for pensions auto-enrolment

The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) in association with JLT has published two new guides in its series ‘New rules for pension saving made simple’.

People strategy is 'vital' for SMEs, regardless of whether they have HR staff, CIPD study shows

HR, or people management, has a vital role to play in driving long-term performance in SMEs, whatever stage of growth the organisation is in and whether or not the organisation has a dedicated HR...