Employers Urged To Relax Dress Codes During Heatwave The TUC believes that the best way for staff to keep cool inside when it's swelteringly hot outside is for them to be able to sport less formal, more casual clothing, and come into work in shirt sleeves and shorts. More... Workplace Warning As UK Faces Summer Heat Health Alert The Met office has issued the first Heat Health Watch warning this summer as it confirmed that temperatures at London Heathrow recently rose to 30C, making yesterday the hottest day of the year so far. Workplace temperatures are governed by the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, which lay down requirements for most aspects of the working environment. More... Bogus CVs Sent Out By Government In Attempt To Expose Racism A total of 1,000 CVs were sent to employers to test whether candidates with ethnic minority names were treated differently to those with traditional British names. It followed suggestions that people with Asian or African sounding surnames are less likely to be offered an interview than those with similar qualifications who appeared to come from Anglo Saxon backgrounds. More... BA Staff Sign Up To Work For Free British Airways has announced that 800 staff have volunteered to work unpaid over the coming weeks after the company's appeal to staff for help in the business's fight for survival. Alongside the 800 who will be working for free, thousands of others have signed up for voluntary pay cuts in support of the airline's cost reduction programme. More... Government Funding Creates 200 Jobs Figures released by the Scottish National Party (SNP) have shown that Scottish government funding has helped to create more than 200 jobs in the East Kilbride area in the last two years. Grants totalling 3.728 million have been offered by the SNP to businesses in the region since it took power. More... Graduate Jobs Available In Northern Ireland There continues to be opportunities for graduates in Northern Ireland, it has been claimed. The University of Ulster Business School has argued that graduates do not have to leave the country in order to find work as employers are always looking to take on top talent, even during a period of economic instability such as this. More... Teamwork In Jeopardy As Recession Bites 70 percent of employers say teamwork is crucial to business success but the downturn is putting it at risk. As businesses seek to survive the downturn, ideas and sharing those ideas is essential, but cut backs in travel costs and face to face meetings are proving a challenge to creativity, according to research released recently by Cisco WebEx. More... Recession Forces Recruitment Freezes For Small To Medium Sized Enterprises The recession is continuing to pressurise Small to Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) in the UK to reduce costs, with recruitment hit heavily. According to a survey by Monster.co.uk, the current economic climate is forcing three quarters of UK SMEs to recruit at lower levels. More... New Goal To Get People With Learning Disabilities Into Work People with a learning disability will be helped into paid jobs to close the employment gap, Jonathan Shaw, Minister for Disabled People, and Phil Hope, Minister for Care Services, have pledged. The goal is set out in the new cross government Learning Disability Employment Strategy, published recently. More... Management And Staff Cooperate To Fight Recession Employers and staff work are working together to protect businesses and jobs by increasing flexible working and freezing pay and recruitment, new research reveals. Employment Trends 2009, Work Patterns in the Recession, by the CBI and recruitment experts, Harvey Nash, show almost two thirds of employers have made or are considering making significant changes to the way they organise their workforce and working patterns. More... Recruitment At Sainsbury's Sainsbury's has announced plans to take on 23 new employees following the opening of a new store in Halstead, Essex. The supermarket chain is transferring 70 of its staff from previous site owner Somerfield to the new development and is looking to recruit workers of all levels of experience. More... Employers Advised To Reduce Pressure On Staff Britain's bosses need to relieve the pressure on their workers if a stress epidemic is to be avoided, experts have claimed. Nattasha Freeman, the President of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH), says it is critical that employers help their staff cope with the demands of work during these troubled economic times. More... Disney Recruits In London Disneyland Paris is bringing its Europe wide recruitment campaign to London this week to source jobs in sales, hotel and hospitality. This year, nearly 7,000 jobs are available in diverse professions at the theme park. British employees represent the third largest community at Disneyland Paris, after French and Italians. More... Penta Consulting Wins Best International Recruitment Firm At Recruiter Awards For Excellence 2009 Specialist ICT recruiter Penta Consulting has won the coveted title of 'Best International Recruitment Firm' at this year's Recruiter Awards for Excellence 2009. This award, which was presented by top comedian Michael McIntyre, is the highest international accolade in the recruitment industry. More... Training Opportunities Open Up As Employers Focus On Retention According to a recent report, although recruitment is drying up, there is real scope for those already in work to secure development and promotion opportunities. The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) says that employers are turning to retention and staff development rather than recruitment to secure the skills they need. More... images courtesy of www.freefoto.com

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