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HMRC staff gain work experience in a small business

HM Revenue & Customs officials are to gain hands-on experience of life in small businesses tomorrow.

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Beecroft report: bringing in no-fault dismissals won't help businesses grow, says Vince Cable

Unfair dismissal plans outlined in the Beecroft report published yesterday, will not help small businesses grow, the business secretary Vince Cable (pictured) has said.

Apprenticeships must become become more ‘relevant and beneficial’, says Committee of Public Accounts

The Committee of Public Accounts has said that a fifth of apprenticeships last less than six weeks and are of no benefit.

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CIPD launches campaign calling on employers to engage with young people and improve their recruitment prospects

Employers, including Marks and Spencer (pictured), Deloitte, Nestlé, O2 and NHS Employers, have joined forces with the CIPD in the launch of a campaign designed to generate a step change in employers’...

UK lags behind in organisational ‘openness’, holding businesses back from collaboration, finds CEO study

Outperforming organisations are embracing openness and discovering new opportunities to create value through collaboration but UK organisations are behind the curve, according to a survey of chief...

Unconscious bias in business: what is politically correct?

Rupert Murdoch’s recent ‘unfortunate use of language’ at the Leverson Inquiry in referring to David Cameron’s late disabled son highlights some of the contentious issues that currently exist in most...

Employers waste money through miscommunication of the value of employee benefits, finds CIPD/Benefex survey

The majority of employers in the UK could be wasting the money they spend on salaries and benefits by leaving employees in the dark about the true value of the total package. That’s according to new...

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Industry-wide pensions group publishes code to help employers make the right decisions

A new Code of Conduct on the charges made on workplace pensions could help employers choose the best pension for their staff, a wide-ranging group hassaid.

Vicarious Employer Liability: Did Sainsbury’s failure to deal with a grievance lead to murder?

Last month (April 2012), the Scottish civil courts refused to dismiss a claim seeking to hold Sainsbury’s plc liable for the death of a former employee. The family of murdered Roman Romasov, who was a...

UK employers must be involved in education rather than its 'consumers', businesses told by OECD

UK employers need to become part of the education system rather than merely consumers of education, according to Andreas Schleicher (pictured), coordinator of a new Organisation for Economic...

Senior employees prepared to quit their jobs over lack of flexible working provision

A record 13.4% of senior employees think employers are out of touch with working mums and plan to quit the industry in the next two years if employers continue to deny flexible provisions for those...

Home is where the work is

If you are reading this bulletin in your home office, bravo. You are celebrating National Work from Home Day – and indeed Work Wise Week – in the best possible way. If you are reading this in your...