Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
The Department for Work and Pensions have been testing employers’ adherence to the discrimination laws by sending out bogus job applications from fictitious people with foreign names. They have found that employers ”still discriminate against people solely on the basis of having an ethnic minority name.” Employers are up in arms about the DWP’s tactics but the DWP says it will use the research to help judge levels of discrimination in the jobs market.
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Friday, May 1st, 2009
One of the immediate effects of the credit crunch and the need for businesses to economise was that companies slashed their training budgets. Now that we are seeing the first tentative signs of recovery, businesses are tentatively looking at training again; after all to survive in the new economy companies will need to be fitter and their staff will need to be engaged and skilled. But training is still expensive and it takes people out of the workplace for extended periods of time, just when their presence is most needed. Which is why we are introducing Career Energy Energisers.
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Tags: Career Advice, Career Coaching, Career Consultants, Career Energy, Career Energy Energisers, Change Management, Employee Engagement, Energisers, Leadership Development, Personal Change, recession, Training
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