Employment Relations archive 2010

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20 December 2010
HR & Compliance Centre launches international service, effective selection tools:
what works for employers, B&Q embraces flexible working culture,
Outlook video: Pay prospects 2011, private sector pay prospects
2010/11: 2% rises forecast, managing underperforming employees

29 November 2010
Christmas and New Year working arrangements 2010/11, alcohol
misuse during the Christmas period: overview, alcohol misuse
during the Christmas period: employers' checklist, recruitment
and selection, changes and barriers, salary prospects

15 November 2010
Introducing Liveflo: the revolutionary compliance flowchart tool, HR & Compliance Centre
graduate recruitment survey 2010: salary prospects, absence initiatives
survey 2010: role of line managers is key, boosting health and safety in
non-unionised firms, weekly dilemma: Work Christmas parties

1 November 2010
Kent local authorities share HR services, HR & Compliance Centre induction survey 2010:
delivery and evaluation, HR & Compliance Centre induction survey 2010: success factors
and challenges, model redundancy letters: consultation and voluntary
redundancy, scale of public spending cuts becomes clear

4 October 2010
Equality Act 2010: resources on HR & Compliance Centre, HR & Compliance Centre Weekly podcast:
Equality Act special, model equal opportunities policies updated,
harassment and the Equality Act 2010: checklist, employers' questions
answered, managing employee departures survey 2010: notice periods

20 September 2010
Lessons learned, training and skills, the role of HR, HR & Compliance Centre 2010/11
graduate recruitment survey, how e-learning can boost sales and improve
employee retention, harassment and the Equality Act 2010: overview,
harassment and the Equality Act 2010: case study

3 September 2010
The role of HR, getting the most out of employee assistance programmes,
HR & Compliance Centre resource pack, new secondary legislation supports definition of
disability, Government issues definition of disability in the Equality Act
guidance, employees' trust low in bosses of recession-hit companies

23 August 2010
Using competencies in HR practices, benchmarking competencies, pay
awards, international security agreed following acquisition of Areva T&D,
France: Agreement regulates temporary "portage" work, Germany: Court
ruling could promote bargaining fragmentation

9 August 2010
Employment relations, time off and facilities, working with trade
unions: HR & Compliance Centre resource pack, return-to-work interviews 2010,
managing employee departures, setting absence targets to improve
performance: the 2010 survey

26 July 2010
Trade union membership, recognition agreements, CAC reports no
change in number of trade union recognition applications, working
with trade unions: HR & Compliance Centre resource pack, effective recruitment
and selection, avoiding discrimination in redundancy

12 July 2010
Employer practice, managing change, social media, DVLA moves recruitment
and assessment back in-house, pay awards, equal opportunities employment
law manual updates, how to avoid a dispute escalating into industrial
action, graduate vacancies could drop by 7%

29 June 2010
Employee communications: the 2010 IRS survey, informing and consulting
during a collective redundancy process, communication during
reorganisation and redundancy, annual leave: realising the benefits of
good practice

14 June 2010
Labour turnover rates and costs: IRS survey 2010, World Cup 2010:
is your workplace prepared?, improved disability equality at NHS
Bradford and Airedale, supporting disabled employees, working with
trade unions: HR & Compliance Centre resource pack

1 June 2010
IRS absence rates and costs: 3.3% of working time lost to absence, managing
stress-related absence at work: the 2010 survey, line manager training
improves absence at Staffordshire Council, culture change reduces absence
at John Wheatley College, BBC extends disability equality

10 May 2010
Hung Parliament: the impact for employers, IRS 2010 retirement procedures
survey, pre-retirement support offered by employers, 2010 IRS sporting
policy survey: employers prepare for World Cup, topic of the week: World
Cup fever FAQs, IRS line manager training survey 2010: how to get results

26 April 2010
Volcanic ash cloud: employment issues caused by disruptions to flights,
IRS 2010 dispute resolution survey: managing discipline, IRS 2010 dispute
resolution survey: grievances and the new Acas code of practice, model
disciplinary procedure, responding to an employment tribunal claim

12 April 2010
IRS 2010 dispute resolution survey; workers' statutory right to be
accompanied at disciplinary and grievance hearings - model policies and
documents; dealing with workers' statutory right to be accompanied at
disciplinary and grievance hearings; labour absence and turnover

22 March 2010
IRS flexible working survey 2010: combating the recession, IRS flexible
working survey 2010: take-up and employee requests, IRS flexible working
survey 2010: benefits, issues and making it work, labour turnover and
absence rates, EU: MEPs call for 20 weeks' maternity leave

8 March 2010
Managing stress at work: the 2010 IRS survey, stress management
training: the 2010 IRS survey, HR & Compliance Centre's latest work-related stress
articles, training and development of line managers, IRS 2010 evaluating
training survey, relationships in the workplace

22 February 2010
HR roles and responsibilities: the 2010 IRS survey, public sector HR
is facing tough times despite economic recovery, HR must tackle
performance to deal with Whitehall budget cuts, HR challenges
in the banking sector, the IRS survey on sporting policies

8 February 2010
Paternity and adoption leave: the 2010 IRS survey, legal Q&A:
Additional paternity leave, paternity and adoption rights section of
the employment law manual, poorly paid rights will deter fathers from
taking leave, discipline and grievance: the 2010 IRS survey

25 January 2010
Change management at the Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust, survey:
HR's role in managing organisational change, managing change at
Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service, change management: The more
things change..., flexible working: the 2010 IRS survey

6 January 2010
Maternity provision and return to work: the IRS survey, maternity, paternity and
adoption pay to increase to £124.88, maternity rights: company maternity policy
managing stress: the IRS 2010 survey, review of 2009, swine flu - guidance for
employers, unemployment rises to 2.5 million, pay audit requirements