It’s just before opening time on bonus day at John Lewis and, boy, are we excited. Up and down the country, the 69,000 people who work for the nation’s favourite retailer are gathered, impatient. At head office in London’s Victoria, in 28 John Lewis department stores from Southampton
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The allegations levelled against Gordon Brown this week are a timely reminder that bullying is not simply the domain of the playground. Workplace bullying is on the rise, a by-product of the added pressure placed on workers and employers by the recession.
It can be hard to know where to draw
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Age Concern and Help the Aged have reported that employees are increasingly forced to retire against their will.
More than 100,000 people were forced to retire against their will last year as employers used the default retirement age to cut back on jobs, according to Age Concern and Help the Aged.
The
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Public sector organisations are hiring migrant workers at a faster rate than
their private sector counterparts despite the jobs shake-out research shows.
By Roland Gribben
Published: 7:49PM GMT 18 Feb 2010
One in five employers have recruited foreign workers over the last three
months with almost 25pc of public sector concerns
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Job centre staff were unprepared for the hundreds of thousands of middle class
workers who have lost their jobs in the recession, the Government has
admitted.
By Christopher Hope, Whitehall Editor
Published: 10:00PM GMT 16 Feb 2010
A report published by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) found that
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A rapidly widening gap between skilled and unskilled employees will result in
the country’s workforce being split into the “elite and the excluded”
over the next 10 years, says a report published today.
By Roland Gribben
Published: 7:00AM GMT 16 Feb 2010
By 2020 the elite – workers in technical, professional
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Whether it’s a failure to communicate useful information or a tendency for slip-ups that make you and your colleagues look bad, the chances are you could tell your boss a thing or two about the way he or she works. Recently it was even claimed that doing so would make
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Significant public sector job cuts are set to reverse the downturn in
unemployment in the weeks ahead according to a survey.
By Roland Gribben
Published: 12:01AM GMT 15 Feb 2010
Redundancies are on course to almost double in the first quarter as the
jobless pain extends deep into the public sector
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Rising inflation is putting pressure on private sector employers to reconsider
pay freezes, the latest pay deals data suggests.
By Richard Tyler
Published: 6:30AM GMT 04 Feb 2010
Of the 46 deals covering almost 190,000 people in the three months to the end
of January the average pay rise
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Parents dismay as graduates struggle to find work.
By James Caan
Published: 7:14AM GMT 01 Feb 2010
I’m a big believer that one of the UK’s key priorities should be young people
and their employment.
The last year has seen a wave of terrific talent dismissed or ignored. The
class of
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