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PPMA News
- Applying the Acas code on disciplinary procedures to dismissals for some other substantial reason
- Cafcass adds health benefits as sickness rates halve
- Is post-employment victimisation covered by the Equality Act 2010?
- Annual Seminar 2013 Podcast
- Engage for Success - Essex CC
- Workforce news podcast April 2013
- Teacher was entitled to sick pay
- Recognising talent at the PPMA
- When reform gets parked
- Do ‘traditional’ pay schemes promote 'traditional' ways of working?
- Enterpriseand Regulatory Reform Act 2013
- Liddle’s Got Issues: Gagging Orders
- Workforce strategy key for public-sector HR
- Ensuring clarity in pay agreements
- Whistleblowing and “gagging orders” – does the law need changing?
- Ellie wins the vote for HR Rising Star
- Public sector HR body gets Somerset boss as president
- Richard Crouch become PPMA President
- Winners of the PPMA Awards
- Public sector HR: reasons to be confident
- Public sector can improve engagement by involving entire workforce in strategic decisions
- PPMA ANNUAL REVIEW
- Vote for your Rising Star
- Acas publishes collective redundancy guide
- PPMA Newsletter – April 2013 - Issue 7
- Reducing sickness absence in the public sector
- Actions of whistleblower became vendetta
- Pensions: How to inspire interest in HR’s dullest topic
- Disability discrimination and obesity
- Focus on….Supporting an Employee with Autism
- Are you meeting the Employer Standards?
- Improving workplace health and wellbeing
- Anne Gibson appointed as Acting MD in Norfolk
- Voting Opens for Rising Star 2013
- Equal pay claims and “arms length” service provision
- Data: we have to up our game
- Thinking about HR differently
- Confirmation of implementation of new tribunal rules
- Redundancy selection: important to take account of competency demonstrated in the job
- PPMA President writes in The HR & Training Journal
- PPMA Recruitment Awards - Shortlist
- Reduce union facilities time, councils told
- Pay offer leaves both sides dissatisfied
- Whistleblowing - extensions to employers’ potential liabilities
- Employer entitled to rely on previous final written warning in reaching decision to dismiss
- Decline in employee engagement and job satisfaction – CIPD survey
- Further consultations launched
- Localism Act 2011: Pay Policy Statements – Supplementary Guidance issued
- PPMA Members: Vacancies for Lead Officers
- Penna – Delivering Effective Change
- Negotiating for a better future
- Rising Stars - Finalists
- In Memory of a Rising Star
- Employment legislation round-up
- PPMA Seminar 18th and 19th April 2013
- Disciplinary procedures and dismissal decisions
- Rising Stars 2013
- Children and Families Bill published
- PPMA Masterclass with Mee-Yan Cheung-Judge
- 2013: an on-going programme of employment law reform
- LGPS 2014
- PPMA 2013 HR AWARDS - Closing date extended to 8 February
- Learning, leadership development and talent management are not luxuries, they are essential
- Consultation papers on TUPE
- Strategic Leadership Programme
- Majority of public sector employees have reservations about performance related pay
- The right to manifest religion and the law on discrimination on the grounds of religious belief – European Court of Human Rights decisions
- The PPMA is looking for HR stars of the future
- Quashie v Stringfellow Restaurants Ltd: Lap dancer was not an employee, after all
- Talent pipeline still failing women
- Live discussion: what skills will councils demand in the future?
- Dismissal was fair, even though no professional misconduct occurred
- The Unspoken Truths of HR Business Partnering - Event
- TIMETABLE OF EMPLOYMENT LEGISLATION 2013
- Is the public sector at a crossroads?
- Firefighters' careers must change to cope with pension planning
- The living wage: “An idea whose time has come”?
- Review of Public Sector Equality Duty
- PUBLIC HEALTH TRANSFER TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT – TREATMENT OF PENSIONS POST 1 APRIL 2013
- It's time for HR strategy to 'rise to the occasion'
- Changes to collective redundancy consultation
- Was volunteer covered by disability discrimination protection?
- Increasing flexibility in the workplace
- Increase in statutory compensation limits
- The challenges of social media
- A radical overhaul of public service delivery can’t happen overnight and depends on new type of leadership, warns CIPD and PPMA
- Podcast and speakers slides from the PPMA National Debate Event on 8 November 2012
- Video Interview with Martin Rayson
- JE outcomes could not lead to unlawful deduction challenge
- The HR legacy of the Olympics
- TUPE DID NOT APPLY TO SHORT-TERM CONTRACT
- BNP councillor's dismissal violated right to freedom of association
- Constructive dismissal and multiple reasons for resignation
- Don't miss out - book now for the CIPD / PPMA National Public Service Debate on Leading Public Service Transformation – Manchester - 8th November
- Can flexible working for older employees help the public sector avoid loss of skills and experience?
- Government consults on making Code of Recommended Practice on Data Transparency a legal requirement
- Equal pay claims can proceed in the High Court
- Why Cafcass is now in good health
- New and exclusive offer from Croner for PPMA members
- Should redundant employee have been offered alternative new job?
- Shared services: labour of love or necessity?
- Mandatory equal pay audits and other changes to the Equality Act
- Employer’s actions prevented constructive dismissal from occurring
- Has the public sector got talent?
- Don’t let strike threat undermine good relations
- Pensions - automatic enrolment 1st October 2012
- Union anger as Labour supports public sector pay freeze
- The Problem With Local Government Recruitment Panels – A Debate?
- Susan Thomas
- The changing employment relations landscape
- Engagement by an associated employer after temporary cessation
- PPMA at the CIPD Conference
- What has been updated recently on LGA Knowledge Hub?
- Government consultation papers on ending the employment relationship, tribunal reform and response to the call for evidence on TUPE
- Dismissing TUPE’d employees– “changes in the workforce” means what it says
- Guidance on the disclosure of employees’ personal data
- Employers and unions back new pension scheme
- Was redundancy selection pool of one unfair?
- Introducing ultra-flexible workers and volunteers at Hertfordshire County Council
- FBU overwhelmingly votes ‘no’ to LGPS 2014
- Was failure to appoint displaced employee unfair dismissal?
- Dismissals due to breakdown of trust and confidence
- Legislation, consultation papers, ministerial announcements, important cases – keeping track of what’s been happening in employment law since January 2012
- Post Event Information on PPMA event on: The Unspoken Truth About Shared Services
- Learning, training and development, Recruitment and talent management.
- The unspoken truth about shared services
- Did zero hours contract establish employee status and continuity of employment?
- Senior pay: the top line and the subtext
- The procurement delusion: a frustrated relationship with values-driven HR, masked with a smile?
- LGA Workforce Bulletin
- Should we risk losing timely help from our Interim ‘Captains of Industry’? Penna says no
- Hertfordshire County Council – Consulting with staff about benefits changes has paid dividends
- New Employment Deal For Local Government
- Improving the quality of working lives – an organisational imperative
- Worker or not? – the integration test
- No need for sick employees to request leave, in order to receive payment in lieu
- What does the future hold for public services and the managers who work in them?
- Progress and pain for council pensions
- Improve the civil service: focus more on middle 80%
- Nick Clegg backs Nuttall plans to boost mutuals
- Was gross misconduct dismissal reasonable?
- Consultation on a UK Bill of Rights
- The public sector: past, present and future
- Ask the right questions
- Can employees be disciplined twice for the same offence?
- Pensions - Automatic Enrolment
- Live debate this Weds 12-2pm - Regional pay and pensions
- Employment law changes: a summary of recent proposals
- LGPS 2014
- TUPE transfers and service provision changes: did employment contract transfer when there was a change in client?
- HR Outsourcing: It’s not all about the money
- LOCAL GOVERNMENT TERMS AND CONDITIONS – TIME FOR A RADICAL NEW APPROACH?
- Disciplinary Procedures and the Impact of Internal Appeals
- Helping Staff Plan for the Future
- Disciplinary hearings and the right to legal representation revisited
- Promoting and improving management and leadership development: the business case
- Local Government Pension scheme 2014
- Rules on taxation of senior managers to be tightened up
- Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill published, with proposals to change employment tribunal system
- Transformation – the latest business buzzword
- Suspension without pay constituted unlawful deduction of wages
- The EAT therefore upheld the tribunal’s decision
- HR Heads look to beyond the downturn
- Proposals to amend employment provisions in the Equality Act
- Queen’s speech - employment law implications
- Lap dancer was an employee with an ongoing contract of employment
- Public Sector Pensions
- Evolution of HR: is the profession on the verge of dramatic transformation – or extinction?
- Live discussion at 12pm today: Do staff get a good deal from local government
- HR in public sector at crossroads, says new PPMA head
- TOWARDS A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF OUR OWN WORKFORCE
- 'The toughest task: keeping staff happy in a pay freeze
- A faster, higher, stronger PPMA
- Discrimination claims and the disclosure of information
- PPMA Announces the shortlist for the PPMA Recruitment and HR Awards
- Confirmation on proposed industrial action in respect of pensions
- Did manager’s conduct amount to sexual harassment?
- Employee resignation and the effective date of termination
- PPMA boss: HR needs ‘harder edge’
- Our ageing workforce: challenges and opportunities
- Are you interested in setting a new diversity and equality agenda for the PPMA?
- Public sector pay: a time for change?
- CLOSING DATE EXTENDED - PPMA RECRUITMENT AWARDS
- Debate on pay needs to move on
- Is the loss of experienced staff leading to a public sector skills shortage?
- Budget 2012: Caution urged over regional public-sector pay
- Teachers’ Pension Scheme
- Pension Switch Challenge
- Government plans to charge employees for access to employment tribunals are designed to discourage weak or vexatious claims
- National minimum wage increase announced
- Marriage and civil partnership: protection from discrimination (again)
- TUPE transfers and change in workplace location – an important reminder
- Are employers too quick to suspend?
- Tribunal entitled to find a redundancy selection pool was unfair
- PPMA 2012 Annual Seminar
- Effective Organisation Design - Learning from Croydon Council
- Pay Policy Statements – Worth the paper they are written on?
- In training: how to find the skills you need for a career in local government
- Fixed term and temporary contracts – some issues arising
- Loss of staff accelerates
- Talking culture change in Shropshire
- PPMA and Public Services Managers in Jiangxi Province, China
- Local government staff need a new deal
- Transforming Thames Valley police
- PPMA 2012 ANNUAL SEMINAR AND PPMA AWARDS
- Achieving Radical Innovations
- Why we should pool London's public sector pensions
- Was cost-based redundancy selection justifiable?
- PPMA HR AWARDS 2012
- Change in service provider: did employment contracts transfer?
- Managing redundancy: was refusal of alternative employment reasonable?
- HR Award Winners at the HR Summit in Birmingham's ICC
- To cut or not to cut?
- Establishing Employers’ Vicarious Liability
- Meeting the workforce challenge
- Lessons learnt – 10 tips for setting up a HR Shared Service Centre
- Changes to employment law in 2012 - clarifications and timings
- Now is not the time to cut back on pension staff
- Indirect discrimination in recruitment procedures
- ‘Triple whammy’ undermines morale
- Latest Pension update from The Department for Communities and Local Government
- TIMETABLE OF EMPLOYMENT LEGISLATION 2012
- PPMA President Responds to consultation paper on LGPS changes
- Regional pay bargaining: what problem are we trying to solve?
- The Health at Work Review – implications for the public sector
- Top tips: 2011 round up
- Public sector unions ‘given 3pm deadline’ over pensions
- Some recent employment law developments
- Public sector staff have nothing to fear from transparency
- The grand scheme of things
- Layers and Spans of Control Pilot – Learnings from Croydon Council
- Marriage and civil partnership: protection from discrimination
- Equal pay and incremental pay structures
- Pay policy statements – their implications and potential impact
- Pensions strike turnout ‘does not suggest sustained battle’
- Public sector leadership: A trust deficit?
- Government issues draft guidance on pay policy statements
- Localism Act becomes law
- Variation of contract terms after a TUPE transfer: when is it permissible?
- Beyond the strikes: pensions lesson for HR
- Consistency in disciplinary cases
- Winner of the 'Name your Hero' Competition
- What was the reason for dismissal?
- HR Success Kitbag
- Changes to employment law: where are we going?
- Government publishes guidance on public sector equality duties
- What was the effective date of termination?
- What did the Romans do for public sector pensions?
- Variation of contract following a TUPE transfer
- Still minding the gender pay gap
- Disability discrimination and the question of reasonable adjustment
- References – more trouble than they are worth?
- Remuneration during annual leave
- LG Group Submits Pension Proposals to Secretary of State
- LPFA Green Paper: “A New LGPS by 2015: Reality or Aspiration?”
- It's more haste, less speed on public sector pay and rewards
- Working time – different interpretations for the Working Time and National Minimum Wage Regulations
- Flexible working: do we need more legislation or less?
- Video interview with our President, Anne Gibson
- PPMA Policy Briefing - Healthy Lives, Healthy People
- The MJ – Reduced subscription fee for PPMA members
- Anne Gibson features in an article about the potential impact of cuts in the HR function.
- Timetable for public service pensions reviews confirmed
- Amendment to Agency Workers Regulations
- Redundancy round-up
- How public sector sickness figures can aid a balanced debate about staff
- Consultations commence on proposed public service pensions increases
- Schools out for Summer!
- PPMA President meets delegates from Guangzhou, China
- Employees or not?
- Power to the people? The Open Public Services White Paper
- Many Chief Executives in the Public Sector are running complex organisations with very big budgets and this demands appropriate salaries
- Senior Salaries - a dangerous downsizing
- Using Pay to Improve Performance
- Fall in number of cases going to Employment Tribunal
- Wording dismissal letters- a cautionary tale
- Stop treating public sector pensions as a political football
- The changing local government landscape and need for a new workforce strategy
- Supreme Court clarifies employees’ right to legal representation at disciplinary hearings
- Revised draft regulations on the specific public sector equality duties laid before parliament
- Inappropriate use of email and social media leads to dismissal
- TUPE and post-transfer changes to collective agreements
- Hay Group report - Mind the talent gap
- Apparent bias makes grievance appeal procedure unfair
- Recent employment law developments
- PPMA response to Government review of the Equality and Human Rights Commission
- Dismissal of Director of Children’s Services held to be unlawful and void
- Check out our very own President Anne Gibson on the front cover of People Managment
- Increasing flexibility in the modern workplace
- Consultation on Reform of the EHRC
- Partnership of Public Employers (PPE) Newsletter for May 2011
- Government launches “Modern Workplaces” consultation on changes to maternity and paternity leave provisions and flexible working
- THE 2013 PPMA ANNUAL SEMINAR
- Applying the Acas code on disciplinary procedures to dismissals for some other substantial reason
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Evolution of HR: is the profession on the verge of dramatic transformation – or extinction?
An article in HR Magazine this week titled - Evolution of HR: is the profession on the verge of dramatic transformation – or extinction? 
Martin Rayson, PPMA President makes a comments within the article - to view the full article - click here
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