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The new, shorter consultation period for collective redundancies will free up businesses to make changes to their structure and this could help to pre...
Company employee benefits packages are an effective but often underused tool for motivating staff. By offering the right support - for example, financial protection in the event of long-term sickness absence - employers can go a long way to ensuring a happy, productive workforce, not to mention making their firms a more attractive prospect to new staff.
A third of unemployed young people have not received any responses to job applications in the past year, new research has shown. A survey of 2,000 ...
New reality: get good marks that few think are credible, go to university, accumulate student debt, compete against global peers, work an average 43 hour week, rent, raise a family if you can afford it, zig-zag for 45 years through dozens of companies, retire with whatever you have managed to save, live to 81.
Many UK employers are still being forced to lay on remedial lessons for school leavers in reading, writing and maths, according to new research. An...
The countdown to the Olympics has begun. Stadiums complete, torch relay under way, and plans to ease the impact on London's workforce being rolled out at speed.
Is it time to think the unthinkable about the way we employ people in Britain? The question is prompted by the leaking of Adrian Beecroft's controversial report to the government, which recommends sweeping changes to aspects of UK employment law.
Young people get the most out of apprenticeships if they carry out work experience or related vocational study beforehand, research has shown. The ...
Teachers and lecturers are the professionals most likely to clock up unpaid overtime, according to figures released by a trade union. The report, p...
One in five employers believe school-leavers make better workers than university graduates, according to new research. A survey among 1,000 firms b...
Small business owners need to step-up and become leaders who motivate their staff beyond the paycheck. I will go as far as to say that the ability to motivate people is the greatest asset any business owner can have.
With more graduates and fewer vacancies, competition for jobs is fierce. But those leaving university aren't just competing with their peers in this country. Today's university leavers increasingly find that they are applying for the same jobs as graduates from abroad.
Like all painful processes, unemployment has a flip side. It is an opportunity. For a lot of people unemployment will be the first time in their lives they won't have any one telling them what to do, or what to think. Surplus time could be used to examine life, and redefine priorities.
PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Workers are being forced to take lower skilled, worse-paid jobs such as cleaning because of a shift in the labour market, away fr...
