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PPMA News
- 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
- The MJ 2012 Achievement Awards -
- 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
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How public sector sickness figures can aid a balanced debate about staff
Despite many examples of commitment and innovation in the sector, employee absenteeism is one area which can be improved, says Martin Rayson .jpg)
Read Martin's article which is published by Guardian Professional
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