Category Archives: HR & Employment
What’s happened to Lynne’s applicant anonymity big idea?
Wouldn’t it be more than fab if La Featherstone re-ignited her anonymity idea and added John and Yoko’s bag suggestion?
Employment contracts – many can’t read them
Employment contracts for those working in jobs most likely to be taken by functional illiterates – dolly birds reading TV auto cues springs to mind – should not be longer than one page. The main elements – pay, hours and holidays – should be bullet-pointed.
Rights for pagans – wickermania?
I trust that pagan plods are forced to take leave for paganism out of their annual allocations and are willing to fight crime and harass motorists on traditional holidays.
Let’s not get positive say UK employers
Don’t UK bosses realise that the more diverse their boardrooms are the more successful their businesses will be? It follows like evening follows morning.
Little joy for HR in manifestos – what did they expect?
Any HR directors who thought that employment law would be simplified and or rolled back is clearly bonkers.
Working Time Directive is out of time
The reality is that tougher trading and employment conditions have put flexible working in a much more favourable light.
Careful what you wish for
how are you supposed to compare the performance of a composite mutual against two London Market insurance & reinsurance specialists that have no life and pensions exposure whatsoever?
Racist recruitment ads – aren’t they just telling the truth?
But at least these advertisers are honest. Polish speaking workers would be working with other Poles as the unemployed English are either too lazy or get too much in benefits to be bothered to work in meat processing
Glittering prizes elude many grads while debt entraps them
Tony Blair’s promise of opening up higher education for all and sundry has predictably brought misery for many of those blinded by it. More than 400,000 graduates entered the jobs … Continue reading
