LONDON, ENGLAND, February, 2010 / — Acas, the employment relations service, is encouraging UK businesses to prepare for the potential economic up-turn by focusing on employee engagement.
In its new discussion paper Acas highlights the simple procedures that can increase employee engagement in the workplace, to improve staff retention, increase morale and encourage greater productivity.
It also [...]
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Caroline Spelman MP: The Government was woefully ill-prepared for the severe weather this week – because it sat on a report on contingency plans for five whole months
Caroline Spelman is Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government.
Has anyone got a sense of déjà-vu about the current grit shortages and widespread disruption to the road network? The reason for that, is that this is exactly where we were in February last year. So how can we have got to this [...]
Memories – The good old days?
Someone asked the other day, ‘What was your favourite ‘fast food’ when you were growing up?’
‘We didn’t have fast food when I was growing up,’ I informed him.
‘All the food was slow.’
‘C’mon, seriously. Where did you eat?’
‘It was a place called ‘home,” I explained!!
‘Mum cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we [...]
New manager for newly relaunched care service
Anthea Call has taken the helm as Branch Manager of RV Care, a newly relaunched domiciliary care service covering west Cornwall.
Based at Roseland Parc in the village of Tregony, near Truro, in Cornwall, Anthea has responsibility for the service which provides care and support to residents of Roseland Parc retirement village and to clients in [...]
City Taxis “drink driving” initiative gains support of Inverness Crime Prevention Panel & Crimestoppers Highlands & Islands in Scotland
Campaign highlights ‘life changing’ consequences of drink-driving
The annual pre-Christmas drink-drive campaign is shifting gear this year, with the aim of convincing drivers that a conviction has the potential to ruin their life through legal and personal consequences.
Inverness Crime prevention Panel have teamed up with City Taxis with a joint initiative to promote the prevention of [...]
President Barack Obama sends 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan
Excerpts of the President’s Address to the Nation
“The 30,000 additional troops that I am announcing tonight will deploy in the first part of 2010 – the fastest pace possible – so that they can target the insurgency and secure key population centers. They will increase our ability to train competent Afghan Security Forces, and to [...]
Eurostat – EU unemployment reached 9.3 percent in October, the highest for over a decade
Job figures fall as finance ministers prepare to meet
ANDREW WILLIS
01.12.2009 @ 17:26 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – New data released by the EU’s statistics office on Tuesday (1 December) shows a rise in the region’s unemployment, and comes one day before finance minister talks on measures to prevent a repeat of the financial crisis.
Eurostat said EU [...]
Barnsley Brickworks fined after schoolgirl killed by boulder
Release No: YH/431/09
A company was today fined after being convicted of failing to provide and maintain a suitable barrier around the boundary of a quarry where a 13-year old schoolgirl died.
On 26 April 2007, Amber Worth from Brierley, in Barnsley, and her friends gained access to Carlton Main Brickworks Limited at Carlton Brick, Clayburn Road, [...]