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John Lewis Partnership Enhances Its 'Employer of Distinction' Reputation With HR and Payroll Solutions
White Papers The challenge was to leverage market-leading HR practices to enhance reputation as an employer of distinction and attract top retail professionals. One of the U.K.s top ten retail businesses with 27 John Lewis department stores and 174 Waitrose...
[May 30, 2007, 1:00]
RSI Week: Your employer's obligations
News Every employer shall perform a suitable and sufficient analysis of those workstations…for the purpose of assessing the health and safety risks. Every employer shall so plan the activities of users at work in his undertaking that their daily work on...
[February 26, 2004, 14:25]
Women quitting IT over lack of employer flexibility
News Thousands of women are leaving the IT industry due to a lack of flexibility on the part of their employers, according to the British Computer Society. Last week, the British Computer Society (BCS) revealed that around 37,000 female computing...
[November 17, 2008, 8:34]
Dmitry employer on copyright crusade
News Russian programmer Alexander Katalov landed in Moscow a week ago just in time to celebrate his wife's birthday. The flight came at the end of what the ElcomSoft chief executive hopes will be his last trip to the United States for a while.
[April 30, 2002, 9:47]
Social Networking and The Employer's Dilemma
White Papers Shoosmiths Solicitors and MessageLabs combine to bring you this legal guide to reducing the risks of online social networking. The whitepaper highlights some of the problem areas that cause employers most concern and provides guidance on how...
[November 16, 2007, 4:06]
He does? I don't see Mr Lachal plugging his employer here.
Talkback The report describes Mr Lachal as "an open-source software analyst with Ovum" but his comments seem very generic to me. Pro Open Source, obviously, but that's perfectly consistent with his introduction.
[January 19, 2007, 21:34]
Employees value home PCs over gym membership
News Over a third of employees who already have home PCs and Internet access provided by their employer would prefer to keep this fringe benefit over membership to a health club, according to research. According to the Mouse in the House report...
[May 11, 2001, 15:36]
Unions: Publish snooping code of practice
News Union chiefs in the UK are today urging the new information commissioner to resist employer lobbying and publish the delayed code of practice on the monitoring of staff email and Internet use. He added: "He should resist the last gasp employer...
[January 9, 2003, 10:05]
AMD worker charged with Intel trade-secrets theft
News The FBI has charged an engineer with stealing trade secrets from Intel, his former employer, after taking a position with rival chipmaker AMD, The Boston Globe reported on Friday. The affidavit said Pani collected the sensitive information from...
[September 15, 2008, 8:53]
Treasury denies new tax on PCs
Talkback How can an employer determine whether or not an employee has used the Internet for "personal use" if that employee is home-based using a company provided laptop, and provides his own broadband connection?
[May 4, 2006, 16:16]
Resume Maker for iPhone
Downloads With Resume Maker for iPhone build amazing resumes that can be sent within seconds to your prospective employer. You will be able to set all your personal information, so you do not have to type it every time you want to send it to a new...
[October 9, 2009, 4:42]
Sacked IT manager sues referee for £10m
News An IT manager who was sacked from a city bank is suing a previous employer over the job reference that caused his departure. Meriel Schindler, head of employment at City law firm, Withers, told ZDNet that if there is a notable misrepresentation...
[March 20, 2003, 8:45]
BSA offers £20k bounty to rat on your boss
News Anti-software piracy group the Business Software Alliance (BSA) is offering a £20,000 reward to anyone who informs on their employer using illegal or unlicensed software. Carroll said disgruntled staff are often the source of tip-offs, and a YouGov...
[April 28, 2006, 10:40]
Researcher sacked over anti-Microsoft paper
News A computer security expert who contributed to a paper deeply critical of Microsoft has been dismissed by his employer, a consulting company that works closely with the software giant. However, @Stake did call Microsoft late on Tuesday night (after...
[September 26, 2003, 8:50]
Surveillance 2: Eyes in the back of your head
News If you're an employer, there are several things you should do. If your employer allows you to surf the Web for personal business, make sure you use the privilege sparingly. First, develop a formal, acceptable usage policy and make sure every...
[February 25, 2000, 9:44]
RIM 'sues' Motorola over hiring blocks
Blog Comment Surely, non-solicitation clauses can only apply to staff still under contract with an employer. However, if the staff have been put on "garden leave" by an employer then they are effectively still under contract so any non-solicitation rules could...
[December 29, 2008, 13:31]
Google blogger out
Talkback While I have simpathy with 'The Queen Of The Sky' who didn't comment on her employer, I consider the publishing of specific comments about one's work place and employer, particularly if these are personal or derogatory, to be quite wrong and a...
[February 9, 2005, 10:19]
Blogging, and how to keep your job
News Being a blogger can get you in trouble nowadays, at least if you write something that sufficiently vexes your employer. Are there any limitations on an employer's ability to fire me? California, New York, Colorado, Montana and North Dakota recently...
[March 9, 2005, 13:30]
Google's new hire hits back
News Kai-Fu Lee, whose hiring by Google prompted a lawsuit by his former employer Microsoft, has denied the software giant's claims about his role in its business. In the filing, Lee denied that he has broken or will break any enforceable contractual...
[August 22, 2005, 9:35]
Teenager cleared of email attack charge
News A British teenager has been cleared of launching a denial-of-service (DoS) attack against his former employer, in a ruling that delivers another blow to the Computer Misuse Act. He was accused of sending five million emails to his ex-employer...
[November 2, 2005, 15:35]
