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HR practice: Hours and holidays

Includes hours of work, leave, bank holidays, annual hours, overtime, shiftworking, unsocial hours, Sunday working and nine-day fortnights

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Should HR axe under-used staff benefits scheme?

I’m the HR director for a large business that is looking to cut costs as we face tough economic times, and cutting staff benefits has become attractive. How can we create a solution that helps the firm with its financial issues as well as supports attraction and retention?

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News

02 October 2008
Crisis creates opportunity as well as headache for HR
With this year's conference taking place during one of the most turbulent weeks in financial history, the HR implications of the economic crisis...
18 September 2008
Steep rise in staff working from home
The number of employees working flexibly has risen sharply over the past four years, according to the latest CBI/Pertemps emp-loyment trends...
16 September 2008
Credit crunch means longer hours for HR
The tough economic climate is forcing HR professionals to work longer hours than ever, CIPD research has found.

Features and comment

18 September 2008
Finders keepers
Google has built its success as a search engine on the simple exterior that it presents to the world; its mass of clever...

HR essentials

02 October 2008
Top tips for tackling the 'sickie culture'
The growing use of fake sick notes is making it harder to police sickness absence. A government report issued earlier...

Your say

18 September 2008
Beliefs are personal
What a shame that Geoffrey Davies ended his otherwise balanced letter ('Secular question', Letters, 21 August) about prayer breaks with an insensitive...

Blogs

22 July 2008
Generation why?
A press release has just crash landed into my inbox. It very effectively encapsulates two of my biggest bugbears in contemporary HR thinking....