Wanted Hardworking, Loyal, 168 Hours A Week, 211,000 - 435,000 pa, Answers To...Mum The UK's only recruitment agency review site has, in light of Mother's Day, polled nearly 1,500 people to see what they appreciated their mums doing the most, and has calculated that mums could be earning up to 435,000 pounds pa if they were to charge. More... Long Weekends Are Main Reasons For Sickies The UK's only recruitment agency review site has noted a trend in the days that employees are likely to pull a sickie with 34% opting for the Monday and 26% choosing a Friday, the main reason being that they are too hung over to work. More... Extreme Overtime On The Increase The number of people working 'extreme' unpaid overtime of more than ten hours a week increased by 14,000 to nearly 900,000 last year, according a new analysis of official statistics published recently by the TUC More... Businesses Urged To Address Pay Gap Sooner Than Later In light of the Equality and Human Rights Commission's recently published proposals for businesses to analyse and make public their gender pay gap, an employment law specialist is urging businesses with larger numbers of staff to decide their strategy on disclosing pay statistics sooner rather than later. More... Talent Management Survey Reveals Growing Confidence New research, by employee assessment firm Talent Q, reveals that over half (55 per cent) of UK organisations are anticipating increasing their investment in talent management in the year ahead, up 15 per cent on 2009. The results of Talent Q's latest annual talent management survey suggest increased confidence across nearly all sectors More... Tesco And Stobart Partnership To Create 750 Jobs Supermarket retailer and employer Tesco has announced it is working in partnership with logistics firm Stobart to set up a new distribution centre in Widnes. The distribution deal will help to create up to 750 new jobs in the area, with Tesco having signed a lease on a 500,000 sq ft chilled distribution facility at Stobart's inland port next to the River Mersey. More... Poor Career Prospects Could Lead Gen Y Exodus Down Under Grim career prospects for Britain's graduates could lead to a dramatic rise in young Britons moving to Australia on an Australian Working Holiday Visa, warns the Australian Visa Bureau. New figures from the Higher Education Funding Council for England, predict more than 200,000 would-be-students in the UK will be unable to obtain a university place this year More... Forced Retirement Used As Cheap Alternative To Redundancy? Two charities for the aged have accused some employers of using forced retirement under the default retirement age as a cheaper alternative to redundancy. Charities Age Concern and Help the Aged say that the number of people aged 65-plus forced to retire increased last year to more than 100,000. More... Recruiters Warned Of Dangers From 'Corporate Prisoners' A worrying disconnect between talent and recruitment professionals is leading to organisations employing the wrong kind of people, and this is storing up future problems, recruiters have heard. Ian Gooden, director of people at HR consultancy Chiumento, told a meeting of the Recruitment Society in London recently that while recruiters were focused in meeting the demands of the business to get staff More... Public Pay Fears Three-quarters of public sector workers expecting the worst during the election year. Public sector jobseekers are worried that election year 2010 will lead to wage freezes and job cuts. This is according to research commissioned by totaljobs.com in which three-quarters of 8,000 public sector jobseekers questioned expected to see pay frozen or reduced as a result of the election More... Resignations Rise The number of resignations among UK workers has increased in the past year, according to data from the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and employment law service XpertHR. The data collected from 43,312 individuals in 197 organisations reveals resignations levels stand at 4.7%, compared with 4.5% last year. More... HR Crucial To Retaining Elite Workers Effective HR strategies are going to be crucial in attracting and retaining elite talent in the next decade. Friends Provident's 'Visions of Britain 2020' report, in conjunction with consumer and business company, The Future Foundation, says the 'elite worker' will be increasingly valued and sought after by companies. More... Employer Issues Emerge From Recession Researchers at the Institute for Employment Studies (IES) have created a top ten list of priorities for HR professionals, as the UK emerges from recession. The IES report identifies the following top ten issues for employers following the recession: More... Rec-To-Rec Recording Recovery The recruitment-to-recruitment market is recovering, according to rec-to-rec recruiter McCall. The firm says that Q1 has started strongly with a growing number of placements from existing and new clients daily across all sectors - from IT to public sector to professional services, both internationally as well as in the UK. More... Fit Note Guidance For Employers Employers can access advice on getting people that are off work due to illness back into employment with the introduction of fit note guidance launched recently. Government estimates that the fit note, in place of the traditional sick note, will save the UK economy an estimated 240m over the decade. More... images courtesy of www.freefoto.com

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