Personnel Today Awards 2021: Ocado with Aon collect HR Technology Award

Ocado’s HR group renewed its enlistment cycle, making it more attractive and more successful, in association with Aon’s Assessment Solutions. Their endeavors saw them win the HR Technology Award. We survey their accomplishments and those of the sprinters up in a top notch classification that gave the appointed authorities a troublesome undertaking. Victor Ocado Group […]

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How can HR respond if an employee has been trolling someone online?

Online trolling has soared during the pandemic. Employers can be held liable for workers who harass or discriminate against others online, so how should they approach these issues at work? Ben Thompson offers some advice.  The pandemic has been faulted for an expansion in web based savaging and provocation, in any event, hitting the degrees […]

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How to handle controversial employee opinions

Should an employee’s unsavoury or offensive opinion always lead to dismissal? Beverley Sunderland looks at examples from case law and outlines how employers can handle staff whose views have upset others. As we are progressively seeing well known people being “dropped” because of their perspectives, it very well may be not difficult to shape the […]

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Estate agent Savills investigates racist tweet

Estate agent Savills has launched an investigation after a manager allegedly posted a racist tweet following England’s Euro final defeat to Italy. The singular record – held by a Savills agent who since been suspended by the firm – furthermore evidently joked about harmful way of behaving at home. Savills has said the laborer ensured […]

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‘Fragmentation frustration’: Too many HR tools can hamper productivity

New research may just have punctured the illusion that more digital tools can only improve workflow and productivity. Adam McCulloch reports It’s a typical sensation. IT has thought of a work process fix including another computerized device. “Great” we as a whole toll while noisily concurring that our lives are going to be made simpler. […]

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BBC journalists banned from attending ‘controversial’ events

BBC journalists are no longer able to attend events that may be ‘controversial’, including demonstrations about LGBT issues or Black Lives Matter protests. The standards on unbiasedness, which have been presented close by severe virtual entertainment rules by BBC chief general Tim Davie this week, forestall journalists and staff who work in current issues from […]

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Hundreds of police officers investigated for sharing offensive content

Almost a thousand police officers have been investigated for posting offensive content on social media, according to an investigation by the Daily Mail. The examination revealed trades of sexist, misogynist, bigot and homophobic messages, including express photographs. There were additionally reports of certain officials sending sexual substance to underage or weak casualties. Last week PC […]

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Covid-related employment cases: 10 key rulings for employers

Employment tribunals have been deciding coronavirus-related cases throughout 2021. We set out 10 key first-instance rulings related to the pandemic from which employers can learn lessons. 1. No blanket right to refuse to attend work during pandemic Key case: Rodgers v Leeds Laser Cutting Ltd What happened in this case Mr Rodgers’ business was finished […]

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LinkedIn – Love It or Loathe It? John Simmonds talks to Oven-Ready HR

Season 3 of the Oven-Ready HR podcast kicks off with a look at LinkedIn. I love and despise LinkedIn in equivalent measure and I thought it high opportunity to converse with a LinkedIn master about why this web-based entertainment stage is currently basic for anybody in business. Jon Simmonds is the author of Rocket Science, […]

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HSBC Holdings employees under scrutiny for WhatsApp use

HSBC Holdings is being investigated by US regulators amid allegations that staff used messaging platforms such as WhatsApp to send sensitive work messages. In the organization’s yearly report distributed for this present week, it said it was helping out the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), a monetary administrations controller in the US. President Noel Quinn […]

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