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RSS overtimeLeader: The right to shop at work
Leader Just as many organisations that Britons work for these days have no idea how much extra time staff put in - remember that quaint thing called 'paid overtime'? We heard this week that many of us will be using time at work to shop online for... [02 Dec 2005]
MPs probe government over EDS
News Earlier this year the CSA spent £11.5m in overtime costs after EDS installed a £450m computer system that MPs later said was an "appalling waste of public money". MPs have asked the government whether they will sack EDS over continuing IT problems... [27 Oct 2005]
Defining and Delimiting the Exemptions for Executive, Administrative, Professional, Outside Sales and Computer Employees; Final Rule
White Paper This paper provides the text of final regulations under the Fair Labor Standards Act implementing the exemption from minimum wage and overtime pay for executive, administrative, professional, outside sales and computer employees. [24 Jun 2005]
Dutch Hospital Keeps Its IT Systems Healthy With HP Solutions
White Paper It also wanted to get better control of costs - not only the direct cost of overtime spent on solving problems but also the hidden costs caused by customers trying to solve their own IT problems. The Hague and Utrecht, Groene Hart Hospital is a... [22 Jun 2005]
Child support IT fiasco costs £11.5m in staff overtime
News The Child Support Agency (CSA) has been forced to pay staff more than £11.5m for hundreds of thousands of hours of overtime since the introduction of a £450m computer system by EDS. Stephen Geraghty, the new head of the CSA, admitted in a letter to... [13 Jun 2005]
Leader: Skiving - or diving for flexibility?
Leader For the 14 days that the study finds average employees are now 'desk skiving', how many days are worked in unpaid overtime? New research published today talks about 'desk skiving' and how about 14 days per employee per year are lost to this... [13 Apr 2005]
RFID rollouts: Are you about to cripple your network?
News Enterprises planning on an RFID rollout should take a second look at their network, according to analysts. A whitepaper from research firm IDC, sponsored by Cisco, claims that firms need not only to consider the bandwidth-guzzling potential of an... [15 Mar 2005]
PeopleSoft Case Study: Toyota Motor Manufacturing North America
White Paper TMMNA is using the portal and PeopleTools to develop a workforce management application to give group leaders on the plant floor information on employee attendance, safety policies, training, and overtime. [05 Mar 2005]
CIO Jury: Unsocial and long hours are a "fact of life"
News The UK's IT bosses have hit back at claims that the IT profession suffers from a long hours culture that results in staff working thousands of pounds worth of unpaid overtime every year. Friday has been dubbed "Work Your Proper Hours Day" by the... [24 Feb 2005]
Leader: Long hours come with the job
Leader This Friday workers up and down the country are being urged to 'Work Your Proper Hours' by the Trades Union Congress, which is campaigning against the UK's culture of long hours and unpaid overtime. Not surprisingly the TUC singles out IT roles... [24 Feb 2005]
IT workers lose thousands in unpaid overtime
News Trades unions have hit out at a "long-hours culture" that results in UK staff working thousands of pounds of unpaid overtime a year. Not surprisingly the IT profession features strongly in a TUC league table of unpaid overtime, which assumes a 40... [24 Feb 2005]
TUC: Long hours take the biscuit...
News Unpaid overtime is reaching such levels now that the TUC claims the average UK worker is doing almost two months of unpaid work each year, worth £4,650 on average - with IT workers among the worst hit. [21 Feb 2005]
Opinion: A bad case of worms
Comment As the police work overtime to identify and convict the people responsible for a growing barrage of internet fraud, extortion and vandalism, for every one suspect arrested, here or abroad, another two appear to be ready and willing to step in and... [21 Dec 2004]
Swansea strike action called off
News The one-day strikes and overtime ban were due to begin this Thursday after the union balloted 5,000 members at Swansea over what it perceives to be a privatisation agenda at the council. But a Unison regional branch meeting today voted not to... [25 Oct 2004]
IBM lines up big daddies of Unix servers
News Since then, it has been working overtime to make up for it. IBM plans to announce two new top-end Unix servers, sources familiar with its plans said, opening major new challenges to Sun and HP. The new servers are the biggest iron in IBM's Squadron... [15 Oct 2004]
