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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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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