Friday podcast: absence costing tools, tax breaks for diverse employers and training cuts- July 4, 2008 HR news and analysis including: what employers can do to help tackle violent crime and help inner city youths find employment how a new tool for HR directors can show how much money illness is costing the workplahttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/07/04/46315/friday-podcast-absence-costing-too... Migrant worker ban looms for unregistered employers- July 4, 2008 Thousands of employers could be banned from hiring migrant workers for certain jobs within weeks, legal experts have warned. From this autumn, organisations wishing to hire foreign staff covered by tiers two and five of thehttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/07/04/46600/migrant-worker-ban-looms-for-unreg... NHS must come clean on training says Darzi- July 4, 2008 Every NHS organisation that receives government cash will have to publish how much it spends on staff training each year, under plans unveiled in Lord Darzi's flagship report on the future of the health service last week. Ahttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/07/04/46595/nhs-must-come-clean-on-training-sa... Local Employment Partnerships a winner for Nissan- July 4, 2008 Nissan's HR director has hailed the value of Local Employment Partnerships (LEPs) after scooping the prizehttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/07/04/46594/local-employment-partnerships-a-wi... Another racism review will just slow progress, warns Tiplady- July 4, 2008 Another review of institutional racism in the Police Service is not needed and will only stand in the wahttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/07/04/46593/another-racism-review-will-just-sl... Spoof retirement letters sent to MPs by Employers Forum on Age- July 4, 2008 MPs have received spoof retirement letters as the Employers Forum on Age (EFA) ramps up its campaign to scrap thhttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/07/04/46592/spoof-retirement-letters-sent-to-m... Minimum wage prosecution leaves butcher with large bill- July 4, 2008 Another employer has fallen foul of the government's crackdown on enforcing the National Minimum Wage. The owners of a Sheffield butcher's shop have been ordered to pay more than 11,000 to two former employees after they fhttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/07/04/46591/minimum-wage-prosecution-leaves-bu... Vodafone Foundation offers chance to work for charities- July 3, 2008 Vodafone HR director Matthew Brearly will get involved in a new kind of recruitment activithttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/07/03/46588/vodafone-foundation-offers-chance-... Whistleblower guidance marks decade of Public Interest Disclosure Act- July 3, 2008 Employers have been urged to adopt a new code of practice launched to mark the 10th anniversary of landmark legislation designed to protect staff who blow the whistle on organisations' wrongdoing. The A href="http:www.http://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/07/03/46587/whistleblower-guidance-marks-decad... Welfare-to-work partnership scheme threatened by economic uncertainty- July 3, 2008 Stagnating job growth is threatening the success of a government-backed welfare-to-work programme - and high-profile names have called onhttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/07/03/46586/welfare-to-work-partnership-scheme... |