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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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Why we should pool London's public sector pensions
With public pensions under intense pressure, this is the time to bring the capital's local government schemes together and hand over their running to a mutual - to see the full article published in The Guardian Public Leaders Network by Susan Martin - PPMA Lead Officer for Pension - click here 
20/2/12
