Gift cards – the ultimate Christmas staff reward?
November 7, 2019 5:41 pmChristmas is only a few weeks away and it’s important to start thinking about how you will motivate employees The festive period is the ideal time to acknowledge the hard work carried out by your staff over the last 12 months, as well as motivating and incentivising them for the year ahead. But what is the best staff reward to give them to keep them motivated and say thank you for all of their hard
Read moreCulture change is never instant
February 8, 2019 11:43 amYou can’t change a company’s culture overnight by writing a policy or issuing a memo, but it can be influenced to change over time Since the dawn of the internet HR folk tasked with writing a company’s people-related policies have started with a Web search. They find crib policies made available online by other helpful employers, conduct a crude ‘find and replace’ of the company name, and
Read moreOrganisations must do more to monitor culture
February 8, 2019 11:42 amCreating a strong organisational culture can benefit many areas of the organisation, our webinar found More than a third of HR professionals (37%) think their organisations could go further to successfully measure and report on company culture, according to a poll taken during an HR magazine webinar. A further 30% said that their organisation does not measure and report on culture at all. In our ‘Culture
Read moreCriminal record disclosure scheme infringes human rights, Supreme Court rules
February 1, 2019 9:03 amFailed government appeals could lead to ‘crucial’ system reform preventing workers being ‘unnecessarily anchored to their past’ The way workers’ criminal records are disclosed to employers infringes their human rights, the Supreme Court has ruled. In particular, the court rejected as “disproportionate” the blanket rules requiring automatic disclosure of all convictions where a person
Read moreMinistry of Justice workers to stage two-day strike over pay
February 1, 2019 9:00 amCleaners, security guards and receptionists at department demand London living wage Cleaners, security guards and receptionists at the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) are to stage a 48-hour strike to demand the London living wage. The action by outsourced workers has been coordinated by the United Voices of the World (UVW) trade union, members of which are overwhelmingly immigrants. The Public and Commercial
Read moreRobot era shouldn't mean end to workers' rights, says UN agency
February 1, 2019 8:58 amILO calls for living wage and union bargaining as automation threatens jobs. World leaders have been urged by an influential United Nations agency to sign up to a universal labour guarantee to bolster fundamental workers’ rights, including adequate living wages and collective bargaining through trade unions. Designed to address rapid changes in the workplace triggered by the rise of the robot economy
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