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Employment law changes impact outsourcing
News Changes to European employment legislation could make it more applicable to outsourcing contracts, according to lawyers. The new Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations - know as Tupe - were updated in April this year, and... [09 Jun 2006]
DTI says: get ready for self-employment
News Published by the DTI's Future Unit, the report - called "Work in the Knowledge-Driven Economy" - claims that the rise of the Internet and communications technologies will radically alter the structure of employment in the UK. [16 Aug 1999]
Unbundling 'ups investment and employment' in France
News The increased investment has led to a 3.6 per cent rise in employment in the sector, providing jobs for more than 60,000 IT professionals. France Telecom unions are dead against privatisation, but the figures show that unbundling ups investment and... [09 Jan 2001]
Norway to encourage hi-tech employment
News Norway must discourage employment with the oil industry to reduce the likelihood of a national recession, according to Christian Hambro director of the Research Council of Norway. Hambro was reported on Reuters as saying that Norway had relied for... [10 Sep 1999]
Barclays launches employment smartcard initiative
News Barclays Bank has launched trials of a Government-endorsed smartcard, which allows individuals to register employment and tax details over the Internet. The pilot will work through a network of kiosks in branches around the country, where... [26 Jun 1998]
UK employment service doles out £321m extension to EDS
News Employment Minister Tessa Jowell told silicon.com: "This is a clear demonstration that 24-hour electronic access to public services can and will be delivered. The Modernising Employment Service (MES) project also involves installation of 9,000... [14 Nov 2000]
£10 gets you access to secret employment records
News An addition to the Data Protection Act will allow workers access to any records that mention them by name for as little as £10. These include appraisal notes and sickness, disciplinary and training records as well as email logs and audit trails. [11 Feb 2002]
IR35: has a judge made the whole thing meaningless?
News The result of a recent employment tribunal has thrown into doubt the legal basis behind the government's controversial IR35 legislation. Last week, an employment appeal tribunal ruled in favour of HP. [03 Oct 2001]
Little hope for anti-ageism laws
News The intention of new employment laws which aim to eliminate ageism in the workplace is laudable, say silicon.com readers, however they question how effective the laws will be. One anonymous reader said: "Legislation will protect those in work - but... [29 Sep 2006]
Oracle CEO urges standardisation of European tax laws
News Oracle founder and CEO, Larry Ellison, has warned European governments to standardise their tax and employment laws or risk seeing big businesses pull out. At a conference in London last week, Ellison claimed the ecommerce revolution will allow... [28 Jun 1999]
Labour launches online centres
News Education and employment secretary David Blunkett announced yesterday that 1,200 UK online centres were launched yesterday, with a further 1,050 planned in the near future. The centres have been and will be set up via £252m investment from the... [09 Mar 2001]
UK schools to get computerised register
News The UK Department of Education and Employment has announced a £500m package to tackle truancy and unruly classroom behaviour in British schools. Education and Employment secretary, David Blunkett, promised that a significant amount of funding would... [02 Oct 1998]
Personic offers £500,000 donation to UK jobcentres
News Recruitment software provider, Personic, has offered to donate £500,000 to the Department of Education and Employment to help the jobless find employment. The software would link UK Jobcentres over the Internet, and provide up-to-date information... [06 Oct 1999]
Government urged to abandon cap on share options
News Government plans to put a ceiling on the tax-free value of company share option schemes could damage employment in the UK, according to a leading IT entrepreneur. And clearly there is a potential problem for employment here," he claimed. [28 Oct 1999]
Bangalore to topple Silicon Valley from top tech spot
News Bangalore is on the verge of overtaking Silicon Valley as the biggest IT employment region in the world on the back of the rise in offshore outsourcing. Gowda had claimed that Bangalore has already overtaken Silicon Valley but the latest figures... [28 Jul 2004]
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