It's A Family Affair: The Effect Of Union Recognition And Human Resource Management On The Provision Of Equal Opportunities In The UK
White Papers Equal opportunities policies and family-friendly practices are examined in this paper using data from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey in order to assess their associations with union recognition and strategic human resource management...
[May 20, 2005, 3:00]
Employee Training And Wage Compression In Britain
White Papers Linked data for 1,460 workplaces and 19,853 employees from the Workplace Employee Relations Survey 1998 is used in this paper to analyse the incidence and duration of employee training in Britain. Training is found to be positively associated with...
[May 25, 2005, 3:00]
Ethics & Code Of Conduct Training: Your Critical Role In Compliance
White Papers The critical need for ethics and "Code of Conduct" training for the entire workplace, however, is changing that viewpoint, placing Training, HR, and Employee Relations professionals squarely at the compliance table.
[September 6, 2006, 0:00]
Office Surfers Face Wipeout
News It's a public relations problem -- many companies set up firewalls, so we didn't want to market to people in the workplace and have a potential user of ours be disappointed because they couldn't get a movie file," he said, adding that movie files...
[January 24, 2003, 15:07]
UK Ordered To End 'long Hours' Culture
News UK employees currently work an average of 43.6 hours a week, compared with a European average of 40.3 hours, according to a Workplace Employee Relations survey. The UK working week could be shortened, as the European Commission has ordered the...
[April 29, 2002, 16:52]
Intellectual Property: Can IT Employers Control It?
News Kathryn Dalton, a partner in the workplace relations group at law firm Herbert Geer & Rundle, said that these restraints focus on how employers can protect their business from ex-employees. Basicially what we're saying in frontier and...
[July 17, 2002, 10:20]
Court Battle Highlights Email Rights
News Currently, the National Labor Relations Board's position on the matter is that companies should treat email essentially as they treat any other form of communication, and companies that allow casual use of their communications systems -- say...
[April 1, 2003, 8:32]
Employers Crack Down On MP3s
News There's just so much broader use of networks than what they were intended for," said Wilson Craig, the public relations manager for Packeteer, which makes products to manage network traffic. Companies increasingly are blocking access to Internet...
[June 27, 2002, 14:23]
