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UK Government In Breach Of European Employment Law
News The European Court of Justice has ruled that the UK government has broken the law in denying freelance workers and short term workers the right to four weeks paid annual leave. Roger Bolton, general secretary of Bectu, said: "We are particularly...
[June 26, 2001, 14:17]
Government Removes IT Skills From Visa List
News Many SMEs have an acute need for IT workers, it says, but do not have the resources to undergo the lengthy and costly arrangements to arrange a short-term overseas placement. The panel advises which skills in the IT sector are in short supply...
[May 14, 2002, 17:33]
Temp Staff Pose Biggest Security Risk
News A spokesman for PolicyMatter said in a statement: "With the majority of firms deploying policy through an employee handbook, or ad hoc hard copies, it's a good bet that most temporary workers are never made aware of the company's policies on...
[June 11, 2003, 15:17]
Microsoft Admits .Net Skills Shortage
Talkback IT workers can reskill themselves with .Net (via study)but that counts for little in employers eyes. One of the factors is that management is just too short term obessed. They just want to poach already skilled people from other businesses.
[June 13, 2006, 13:27]
The Cyclical Behavior Of Short-Term And Long-Term Job Flows
White Papers Looking at flows of workers and jobs has helped economists understand movements in aggregate employment. Another useful disaggregation in employment data concerns the distinction between short-term and long-term employment flows.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Avaya Tackles 'economic Reality' With Unified Comms
News The currently ubiquitous term "unified communications" refers to the integration of various kinds of communications tools and applications, focusing heavily on being able to see the availability, or "presence", of co-workers.
[March 17, 2008, 15:18]
Outsourced Jobs 'will Return'
News The loss of US jobs due to a shift of information technology work overseas maybe be painful for American workers now, but the discomfort is only temporary, according to a panel of information technology executives gathered on Tuesday.
[October 22, 2003, 11:40]
IT Offshoring Spending Set To Grow
News The Merrill Lynch survey suggests that tech workers should not fret much about job cuts in the short run. Business leaders have defended shipping work abroad as ultimately good for the US economy and its workers.
[January 7, 2005, 8:15]
HP Delays Raises And Cuts Temp Workers
News In an effort to cut costs and meet earnings estimates, Hewlett-Packard is asking managers to delay salary increases, cut back on using temporary workers, and encourage employees to take vacation time, sources close to the company said.
[December 22, 2000, 9:10]
3G: No Killer App, More A Killer Cocktail
News There will be different applications for police forces than for estate agents than for agricultural workers," said Stephen Flaherty, mobile consultant at Keitai Culture, who was appearing at a panel session.
[September 28, 2004, 17:50]
Fiorina Strikes Back
News But Fiorina praised HP workers for "making extraordinary sacrifices," and she handed out a one-time bonus equal to two days of salary, despite a weak financial performance that erased the normal annual performance bonus.
[November 16, 2001, 10:41]
IT Recruiters Claim Over-reliance On Foreign Workers
News The organisation says that relying on overseas IT workers is a short-sighted policy and that more needs to be done to invest in training and encourage students to consider careers in IT. The number of technology workers from outside the EU entering...
[March 13, 2008, 10:24]
WorldCom Customers Urged To Hang On
News Gartner said the biggest threat to WorldCom customers is lower quality of service as the company cuts workers, but noted that switching carriers in short order can be dangerous considering telecommunications rivals are also struggling.
[July 4, 2002, 11:33]
European Commission Report Endorses Open Source
News Secondly it said some workers may feel undervalued if they are required to work with free software. Firstly, it said that short term costs would be higher for organisations migrating, even partially, to open source, largely because of the initial...
[January 15, 2007, 13:20]
Ageing Americans 'need Outsourcing' - India
News According to the report, the US can fend off the crisis by global sourcing in the form of immigration, temporary workers and offshoring. The offshoring of IT services, the report argues, has allowed US workers to tackle specialised and creative...
[October 16, 2003, 11:30]
US Report: EU Privacy Plan Impact On US Unclear
News The directive could theoretically empower European nations to halt marketing firms, banks, credit card companies and US firms with offices in Europe from sending personal data about European customers, clients or workers to the US, although such a...
[October 27, 1998, 9:44]
From High-tech To Blue Collar
News I'm seeing people take jobs they don't want or even like because they're looking for short-term help until the market improves," said Ilya Talman, president of Chicago-based Roy Talman & Associates, a recruitment firm specialising in information...
[February 8, 2002, 14:07]
Employers Target Pensioners To Fill Skills Gaps
News UK businesses are actively targeting older workers in order to address recruitment difficulties and fill skills gaps, according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development's (CIPD) annual recruitment survey.
[June 12, 2006, 15:30]
Software Firm Sacks President
News Walravens also reduced his firm's third-quarter revenue and earnings estimate for the company and said Manugistics may lay off 20 percent to 25 percent of its 867 workers in a major restructuring effort later this year.
[September 1, 2004, 15:00]
Older, Wiser CIOs Will Be In Demand
News The firm suggests that older workers' experience and flexibility will result in a leveled playing field between older workers and Gen Xers, people born from the early 1960s to the late 1970s. He expects companies will be actively seeking an...
[March 8, 2002, 15:34]
