following the HM Revenue & Customs' "datagate", what poosible new powers for teh information commissioner might mean for organisations.
Presenter Louisa Peacock is joined this week by Greg Pitcher, Rob Moss and, making his debut on the podcast, John Charlton, editor of Training & Coaching Today.
November 16, 2007 06:57 AM PST
This week we take a look at some of the stories making the headlines in Personnel Today, including:
- CBI plans for reforming the welfare-to-work system
- a new HR director at British Airways
- an interview with Google HR chief Liane Hornsey.
Mike Berry is joined this week by Rob Moss, Greg Pitcher and Gareth Vorster.
November 09, 2007 08:14 AM PST
Latest HR news and analysis including: Sainsbury's HR chief Imelda Watson to lead independent review of flexible working; the numerous bills relevant to human resources from the Queens Speech; and the appointment of Chris Humphries as chief executive of the Commision for Employment and Skills.
Mike Berry hosts this week's show, joined by Rob Moss and Gareth Vorster.
November 02, 2007 08:40 AM PDT
This week we bring you a taste of what’s making the headlines in human resources, including why kid’s education might suffer as a result of local authorities sorting out equal pay deals, latest news from equality experts on why race discrimination law in this country is poorly enforced and news of an interesting pilot from insurance firm AXA helping employees to understand their finances better.
Also listen out for views on office productivity as workers admit they cannot work after 3:30pm, and as ever Greg brings you his latest Gripe of the Week.
Louisa Peacock is joined by Greg Pitcher, Gareth Vorster and Rob Moss.
October 29, 2007 06:19 AM PDT
IRS pay and benefits editor Sarah Welfare joins Rob Moss to discuss the 2008 Pay Prospects Survey, which looks at likely pay settlements in the private sector next year.
One in three private sector employers expects to come out of the 2008 wage round with a settlement of 4% or higher.
The research, now in its 19th year, was published this month in Personnel Today's sister publication, Employment Review.
October 26, 2007 07:42 AM PDT
Louisa Peacock presents the latest human resources news.
This week we bring you a taste of what’s making the headlines in HR, including a councillor who got into trouble over Christmas shopping, latest news from the disability employer Remploy about closure and modernisation talks, and why the government’s Train to Gain skills programme may not be going as smoothly as it would like.
Louisa is joined by Greg Pitcher, deputy news editor, Gareth Vorster, online news editor, and Rob Moss, online editor.
As ever Greg brings you his latest gripes from what’s been getting his goat this week: people who moan about the clocks going back.
October 19, 2007 05:46 AM PDT
In this week’s HR podcast we take a look at some of the stories making the headlines in Personnel Today, including what HR professionals would banish to Room 101 and the outcome of an important European case on age discrimination,
We also give you a sneak preview of the results of Personnel Today’s Best Places to Work in HR awards which were held earlier this week at St Paul’s Cathedral.
Plus we have our regular Gripe of the Week, courtesy of grumpy Greg Pitcher.
Mike Berry is joined this week by online editor Rob Moss, deputy news editor Greg Pitcher and news reporter Louisa Peacock.
October 16, 2007 07:29 AM PDT
News editor Mike Berry introduces the Personnel Today Friday Podcast. This week he is joined by deputy news editor Greg Pitcher, online news editor Gareth Vorster and online editor Rob Moss.
Topics up for discussion include the appointment of a new chief executive at the CIPD, and interviews with government ministers Pat McFadden on the postal dispute and Mike O’Brien on pensions reform.
Plus Greg’s ‘Gripe of the Week’: government-speak
October 05, 2007 06:06 AM PDT
HR news including: Louisa Peacock discusses the revelation that three people a week are leaving the National Policing Improvement Authority; and Greg Pitcher talks to EDF Energy's Tim Boylin about health and safety and about how he got on to the the company's board, without a CIPD qualification.
Rob Moss and the team discuss the prospect of a snap general election and Greg's gripe this week: what is the new human rights and equal commission actually called? CEHR, EHRC, who knows?
September 30, 2007 06:31 AM PDT
Mike Berry hosts this week's programme which includes: News from the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth; the Commision for Racial Equality responds to claims of racial discrimination from its own staff; and the CIPD's Linda Holbeche's plans to encourage HR people to get an "experimental" edge.
Mike is joined by Greg Pitcher, Louisa Peacock and Rob Moss who also speculate about the new chief at the CIPD, discuss the virtual strike by IBM staff in Second Life, and the introduction of new legislation regarding Statutory Holiday Entitlement.
September 28, 2007 05:17 AM PDT
Personnel Today online editor Rob Moss interviews Jo Stubbs, managing editor of XpertHR, on the introduction on Monday, 1 October 2007 of new legislation on statutory holiday entitlement.
The change is the first wave of change to the law that will see statutory entitlement rise from 20 to 28 days by April 2009.
September 21, 2007 05:47 AM PDT
Mike Berry presents highlights of the latest human resources news including: Employers criticise GPs unflexible hours; CIPD research and policy director Linda Holbeche says HR must seize the diversity agenda and public sector HR bosses defend the high number of unfair dismissals.
Mike is joined by Gareth Vorster and Rob Moss who discuss the CIPD event in Harrogate this week as well as Greg Pitcher, whose gripe this week is the heavy security arrangements at next week's Labour Party conference.
September 14, 2007 07:57 AM PDT
This week's round-up of HR news including how one in four dismissals in the civil service doesn't stick; and more on the Leitch Review skills pledge.
Rob Moss is joined by Greg Pitcher and Louisa Peack to discusss the above, and by Helen McCormick who gives a sneak preview of next week's special issue for the CIPD Conference and Exhibition in Harrogate: HR with Oomph!
Greg's gripe of the week questions the achievements of the TUC Congress in Brighton this week.
September 07, 2007 09:42 AM PDT
HR news including: how human resources departments in Manchester are helping to tackle gang culture; how the police are trying to expand their industrial rights; and how the Leitch skills pledge is still failing to capture the imagination of employers.
Rob Moss is joined by Louisa Peacock, Greg Pitcher and Gareth Vorster to discuss the above and Greg's gripe of the week: another major sporting event, another tenuous news release fearing how no one will work anymore becuase there's sport to watch.
August 31, 2007 08:20 AM PDT
HR news on financial education for police officers, on UK organisations' lack of preparation for a flu pandemic, and the race to be head of the CIPD, presented by Mike Berry, Gareth Vorster and Louisa Peacock.
Why has the Financial Services Authority been drafted by Association of Chief Police Officers to deliver financial education to police officers?
A survey of UK organisations has suggested that few have made sufficient preparations for the mass absence that would be caused by a flu pandemic.
And who will be the next Geoff Armstrong at the CIPD. Apparently, there's a shortlist of three...
Rob Moss and Sue Proud join in on this week's discussion.
August 24, 2007 06:26 AM PDT
HR news on temporary workers, NHS redundancy payouts and Belfast City Airport workers' threat to go on hunger strike, presented by Mike Berry, Gareth Vorster and Greg Pitcher.
Sarah Veale tells Greg Pitcher about how the main topic for discussion at the TUC Congress in Brighton next month will be the Agency Workers Directive.
Belfast City Airport staff call off their hunger strike after the Transport & General Workers Union agrees to look into its decision not to represent them.
And how did the NHS spend £83m making just 764 people redundant?
Finally, what has happened to the British summer? Greg moans.
August 17, 2007 08:30 AM PDT
HR news on diversity, skills and racial discrimination, presented by Mike Berry, Gareth Vorster and Greg Pitcher.
Diversity practitioners believe diversity could operate better outside human resources.
Another industry's skills programme seems destined for failure according to the Freight Transport Association.
And Asian doctors accuse the NHS of bullying after the GMC releases a report showing doctors trained outside the UK are twice as likely to be taken to a formal disciplinary, once a complaint was made against them.
Finally, should all offices have a tea trolley? Silly season stories suggest that most people think tea trollies ashould make a comeback, but Greg and Mike disagree.
August 13, 2007 02:03 AM PDT
HR news including: final salary and defined benefit pension schemes set to make a comeback; and the employee is sacked for his comments on Facebook.
Louisa Peacock, Greg Pitcher and Gareth Vorster discuss the latest news in human resources. They are joined by Rob Moss for a debate on social networking and,
