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Firms told not to axe jobs under guise of recession
Source: Personnel Today
Date: 05/08/2008
A stern warning has been issued to employers tempted to make mass redundancies during the credit crunch despite facing no financial pressure to do so.

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More claims for equal pay than unfair dismissal
Source: Personnel Today
Date: 05/08/2008
Equal pay has overtaken unfair dismissal for the first time as the most popular grounds for tribunal claims passed to Acas for conciliation.

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Council HR chief denies failing to fully consult union over IBM deal
Source: Personnel Today
Date: 05/08/2008
Somerset County Council’s HR chief has rubbished union claims that he failed to consult them fully before signing a controversial shared services deal with IBM.

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Northern Rock to axe 1,300 jobs this year
Source: Personnel Today
Date: 05/08/2008
Incoming Northern Rock HR director Richard Smelt (right) faces a turbulent start after the troubled bank announced plans to axe 1,300 jobs before the end of the year.

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Police consider fast-track plan to boost top jobs
Source: Personnel Today
Date: 05/08/2008
A graduate fast-track scheme may launch in the Police Service for the first time to help drive up the number of applicants for senior officer posts, the government has revealed.

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Labour employment plans are 'out of touch'
Source: Personnel Today
Date: 05/08/2008
A senior business figure has hit out at employment policies that emerged last week from the Labour Party’s work towards a manifesto for the next general election.

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Unions to seek tougher laws at TUC congress
Source: Personnel Today
Date: 05/08/2008
Vociferous demands for action to further strengthen employment law pack the agenda for next month’s TUC annual congress.

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CSR partnership helps homeless back into work
Source: Personnel Today
Date: 05/08/2008
Bradford & Bingley is running a ground-breaking project in West Yorkshire to help get homeless people back into work.

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Government ignores MPs' criticisms
Source: Health and Safety Bulletin
Date: 01/08/2008
In what is otherwise an abject and complacent response to the recent select committee inquiry into the HSE, the government looks like throwing its weight behind some kind of accreditation of health and safety professionals.

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Builder jailed for chimney manslaughter
Source: Health and Safety Bulletin
Date: 01/08/2008
A self-employed builder has been imprisoned for three and a half years for the manslaughter of the resident of a house on which he had been reconstructing a chimney.

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Rehab support hits return to work
Source: Occupational Health
Date: 01/08/2008
Government efforts to get the long-term sick off benefits and back to work risk being undermined by the low levels of rehabilitation support offered in the workplace, according to the HR body the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).

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Retraining for squaddies back on civvy street
Source: Occupational Health
Date: 01/08/2008
Armed services personnel returning from active duty in Iraq and Afghanistan are to be helped to kick behaviour – including driving tactics that may have kept them alive in a war zone and heavy drinking – but is not good for civilian life.

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Online tool calculates economic benefits of investing in health
Source: Occupational Health
Date: 01/08/2008
National director for health and work Dame Carol Black has unveiled an online tool that will allow companies to evaluate and measure the economic benefits of investing in employee health programmes.

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Government backs accreditation for health and safety consultants
Source: Occupational Health
Date: 01/08/2008
The government has said it supports the case for the accreditation of health and safety consultants, in a move that the industry has said will help to stop over-zealous decisions and “bonkers bans”.

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Numerous job titles weaken standing of health and safety
Source: Occupational Health
Date: 01/08/2008
Health and safety may be moving up the workplace agenda but the vast array of job titles used by professionals, and their sometimes conflicting responsibilities, risk diluting its message and importance, an insurer has warned.


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Indicators

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Pay awards
IRS headline measure of pay settlements: 3.2% (June 2008) Next release date: 29 August 2008

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Recruitment and labour market
Availability of candidates (compared with previous month): - Permanent staff: 19.4% (July 2008) - Temporary/contract staff: 29.3% (July 2008) Next release date: 10 September 2008

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Average earnings
Headline average earnings growth: 3.8% (May 2008) Next release date: 13 August 2008

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Inflation
Retail Prices Index (RPI): 4.6% (June 2008). Next release date: 12 August 2008

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Business confidence
Manufacturing optimism: -40% (July 2008) (CBI) Next release date: 29 October 2008

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Labour disputes
Working days lost: 2,000 (May 2008) Number of stoppages: 11 (May 2008) Next release date: 13 August 2008.

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Official pay data | Summary
Median weekly earnings, whole economy (ASHE 2007 uprated by AEI): £474.60 (May 2008). Next release date: 13 August 2008.

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Unemployment
Headline unemployment rate (ILO definition): 5.2% (March to May 2008) Next release date: 13 August 2008.

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Working hours
Average weekly hours in UK: 38.9 (full-time men); 33.7 (full-time women) (March to May 2008). Next release date: 13 August 2008.

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Pay Intelligence October 2007: Annual review of pay trends and prospects
This month's issue of pay intelligence is devoted entirely to our annual review of pay trends. We examine pay settlement patterns over the past year and present the findings of a major survey of private sector employers on pay prospects for 2007/08.