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A worker on a London construction site has received a prison sentence after being charged with multiple CSCS card fraud offences, a recent news report has been able to reveal. Isaac Agyekun of London pleaded guilty and sentenced to 18 months imprisonment. The case followed an incident on 17 February at the Westfield shopping centre […]

Up to 6,000 jobs will be axed following a strategic review carried out by Centrica, owner of the UK’s largest energy supplier, British Gas, the company has revealed during its interim results for the period ended 30 June 2015. The move is likely triggered by the fact that Centrica group profits fell 3% to £1 […]

An advanced system designed to use CCTV cameras and automatic image recognition software to detect litter being dropped is currently being developed

British small and medium-sized (SME) manufacturers have continued to grow in the three months to July, but were slightly affected by a lower level of performance in terms of exports, a recent news report has been able to reveal. The survey of 408 companies reported steady growth in new domestic orders over the quarter and […]

The market for all biometric workforce management solutions (i.e., cloud-, software- and hardware-based) will reach US$600 million in sales by 2018, market researchers at Biometrics Research Group, Inc. have forecast within their latest market analysis report. The paper examines the growing demand for biometric applications for labor management, workforce productivity and time and attendance solutions. […]

Close to half of UK employees went to work despite being ill, a situation that seriously affects their overall productivity, recent data from the Health in the Workplace Report has been able to reveal. The research found that that 40% of employees have not taken a single day off for illness in the last 12 […]

The number of people taking up night shifts has increased significantly over the past couple of years, recent data published by TUC has been able to suggest. The report, titled ”A Hard Day’s Night”, points out that there has been a 6.9% increase in people working nights between 2007 and 2014. The number of women […]

Granting employees the freedom of flexible working is starting to become an increasingly popular trend, even with employers where working long-hours in the office is somewhat of a well-established tradition, such as the legal sector. For example, Magic Circle law firm, Clifford Chance, has revealed it will be adopting an ‘agile working’ philosophy over the […]

A new biometric access system will help baseball fans enter the grounds of Coors Field stadium in Denver much faster than before, a recent news report has been able to find. The new system will enable the use of fingerprint recognition technology to screen entrants as they head into the venue. There will be a […]

The number of employers who are seriously considering hiring young jobseekers has recorded a significant growth over the past quarter, recent data from CIPD’s latest Labour Market Outlook (LMO) has been able to reveal. The report suggests that 33 per cent of organisations with ‘hard-to-fill vacancies’ are planning to hire more young people to fill […]

Poor execution is the most common cause of failure when trying to implement an effective workforce planning process, a new guide to workforce planning from the Institute for Employment Studies (IES) has been able to reveal. Whilst the pressure may be on to collect as much data as possible, the paper advises stepping back to […]

The significant growth in employment experienced across the UK for the past year has started to stall, as official figures released by the ONS (Office for National Statistics) can reveal a small dip in the number of people in work for the the three months leading to June 2015. For the aforementioned time period, there […]