... over the next 12 months. This was considered even more important than business expansion via merger/acquisition (27%), additional ... research found that 42% of businesses have already invested more in recruitment and employee development during the past 12 months. ...

... most had found insecure and poorly paid employment, with more than half of those surveyed encountering problems at work. A quarter ... which rose to nearly a third among agency workers, and more than a quarter had faced problems with payment - including not being paid ...

... Midlands, are preparing for the first teachers’ strike for more than 20 years.   Kay Powell, one of the company’s directors, said: ... it will certainly be a case of less work for us rather than more during the strike. Some schools will be forced to close, and that will ...

... the administration of benefits and learn to communicate more effectively with employees if they wish to increase, engagement with, and to retain employees. With more than three-quarters (76%) of companies looking to improve benefits ...

... challenges. He has flagged some new measures to convince more people to sign up and says it will be important to recruit more women. Subjects:  Your recruitment business ...

... He said flexible parental leave would help make Britain more family-friendly. Speaking ahead of the Conservative Spring conference Cameron said: "The world is changing. Men want to be more involved in bringing up their children. That's why flexibility is a really ...

... pensions secretary will today unveil plans to ensure 140,000 more lone parents return to work as part a shake-up of the government’s ... job-seekers". He will contrast Labour's approach with a more hardline stance being suggested by the Conservatives, based on "workfare" ...

... of their offices as a ‘creative environment’ with more than a third labelling their place of work ‘uninspiring’. It found ... the future for the workplace. The survey also revealed that more than half of British office workers would be happier if there was a ...

... All the evidence shows that small businesses can create more wealth and more jobs when employment laws are simple and flexible.” * Have you ...

... adult life feeling strung out and tense. It found that more than half of the population struggles to sleep at night, while one in two ... feeling stressed out and on average, people are anxious for more than two hours a day. The survey found that the biggest strain on ...