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One of the UK’s largest sports retailers faces legal action over barring zero hours staff from a multimillion-pound bonus scheme, a source close to the matter was able to reveal.

Small and medium businesses across the UK are very confident about their future prospects, figures obtained from the latest survey carried out by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) were able to reveal.

There were 2.02 million unemployed people in the UK between May and July 2014, 468,000 fewer than a year earlier – the largest annual fall in unemployment since 1988, data obtained from the UK Labour Market September 2014 report released by the ONS can

Mobile access control systems could potentially overhaul the tenancy experience, enabling fast and easy access to a building’s premises and other advanced technologies (such as energy management systems, for example) by using solely one’s smartphone. As part of an ongoing effort to demonstrate the possible applications of a mobile access control system, HID Global created […]

Accurate information about absenteeism and lateness is crucial for any organization, especially when union members working for the respective bodies (either public or private) decide to strike over pay disputes or other issues.

Employee management systems designed to fully leverage existing skill sets within companies’ workforces will become increasingly important as the number of jobs requiring higher-level skills is set to reach 2 million by 2022.

Personnel management systems capable of providing accurate and up-to-date employee activity data will become increasingly important on the future as companies step up their efforts to tackle the issue of diversity in the workforce and marketplace, recent research was able to reveal. A significant data gap will seriously affect diversity in business, new research from […]

The implementation of proper employee attendance monitoring systems is a key requirement for managing sickness-related absence in a proficient way, findings from a recent poll published by the Canada Life Group Insurance seem to suggest. The survey found that a staggering 93 percent of employees would come to work when they are ill. Excessive workloads, […]

Intelligent employee management systems will prove to be extremely helpful in terms of helping companies mitigate the possible problems posed by changes in parental leave legislation that will come into force in December 2014. The majority of organizations are likely to be unprepared for the forthcoming changes, a recent news report on this topic was […]

Putting in place proper skills management systems and harnessing the skills and experience of more than a million people over the age of 50 that are still ready and willing to work could help British companies add an extra £88 billion to the UK’s GDP, a recent report by PRIME was able to reveal. The […]

Monitoring attendance and worked hours for building contractors is a major issue for residential developers, mostly because, in order to do so, they typically need to issue additional access cards. Putting in place proper systems designed to monitor attendance for contractors is particularly useful nowadays, as the construction of new homes in the UK reached […]

Solid and reliable time and attendance systems with extensive HR functionality are the perfect solution to help tackle some of the factors that challenge further growth in the third sector, namely employee turnover and absenteeism. According to figures published in the Agenda Consulting’s “People Count Third Sector” report, employee turnover in the voluntary sector has […]