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20-04-2010
IS WORK GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH AND WELL-BEING?
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Looking after the health and well-being of your workforce reduces loss of experienced staff and stops the costly need of having to find new staff. Looking after employees increases staff moral, staff performance and creates a good company image. |
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30-04-2010
ARE YOU AT RISK OF BEING CHARGED WITH CORPORATE MANSLAUGHTER?
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Are your company directors at risk from being charged with Corporate Manslaughter? |
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07-05-2010
PRINCES MAYDAY NETWORK HELPS BUSINESSES TACKLE CLIMATE CHANGE
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The Princes Mayday Network is the collaborative movement of UK businesses committed to action on climate change. |
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07-05-2010
HEALTH FOR WORK ADVICE LINE
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Small businesses now have access to the help they need to support an employee when they experience ill health at work. |
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24-06-2010
ARE YOUR TEAM HAVING FUN? - How to get the most from your employees
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Create a positive, fun environment in the workplace to get the best from your team. You'll really see a difference but it has to start at the top. |
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05-08-2010
OPPORTUNITIES FOR IMPROVEMENT
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Encouraging employees to speak up can help businesses become better organisations. |
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05-10-2010
CLIMATE CHANGE - CHALLENGE AND OPPORTUNITY
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David Walter, a former correspondent and programme presenter for the BBC and ITN discusses the recession and energy resource efficiency. |
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15-10-2010
MAGIC UNDERWEAR
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Body Enhancing Underwear now for men after centuries of women using control & support ... but what has this to do with your business? |
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29-10-2010
THE OPEN DOOR THAT NOBODY GOES THROUGH
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Businesses all have their own way of doing things, some are more successful than others. Communication is easy when you start out, but when your business grows and you start employing staff, walls appear where there used to be direct access between people. |
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04-11-2010
USED COPIERS HOLD SECRETS
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Did you know that almost all Digital Copiers since 2002 contain a hard drive? This means that details of every copy, scan, email and fax are sitting hidden within the copies. This could be a time-bomb for your business! |
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08-11-2010
NEW CARBON TAX: GOOD FOR TREASURY, BAD FOR ENVIRONMENT
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The Government announced on 20th October a change to the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme (CRC) that means medium and large businesses will end up paying £1bn per year in a carbon tax that will not create a net reduction in greenhouse gases. |
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03-12-2010
BEWARE BONUSES
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Bonuses are not confined to the fat cats of the banking world. Many companies offer them on a more modest scale. Surely, employers believe, the prospect of a bonus will make people work harder. The truth is, however, that bonuses can act as a disincentive as much as an incentive. |
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10-01-2011
GETTING EMPLOYEES ACTIVE IS NOT TO BE SNEEZED AT
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As the UK went back to work this week, it was reported that almost 2 million workers called in sick at an estimated cost of £302million. Simple steps such as encouraging regular walking and cycling among staff are proving to combat sickness and improve health says UK charity Sustrans. |
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13-01-2011
WHAT DOES CARBON NEUTRAL MEAN?
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Carbon neutral products and services are increasingly common: from t-shirts to carpet tiles to beer, if you want it carbon neutral its yours. But what does the term actually mean, and why are organisations so keen to go carbon neutral? |
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31-01-2011
EMPLOYERS CHARTER
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As an employer as long as you act fairly and reasonably, you are entitled to............. |
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03-02-2011
SMART WORKING DOESN'T MEAN LONG WORKING
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The Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has been under fire for telling his Civil Servants not to put any non-urgent business in his red box after 3pm in the afternoon. He has in fact set a thoroughly good example to businesses up and down the country. |
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04-02-2011
REDUCE, REDUCE, REDUCE...THEN OFFSET
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Carbon Retirement is an offsetting firm, so you might be forgiven for thinking we'd be in favour of offsetting as a primary component of an environmental strategy. Well, we're not.....
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11-02-2011
CHANGES TO RETIREMENT AGE AND COMPENSATION FIGURES
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Changes to the statutory default retirement age (DRA) and the latest changes in figures relating to compensation. Relevant to many businesses, we discusses what these changes are and how these changes may affect you. |
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28-02-2011
THE LOW CARBON KEEP PROGRAM
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As spending cuts start to take effect and costs rise it is a difficult time for businesses. As some streams of funding for business are reduced or lost, many remain, amongst them a package called the Low Carbon KEEP Programme. |
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04-04-2011
TOOLS TO SUPPORT CARBON REPORTING BECOME MORE SOPHISTICATED
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Many CSR teams spend at least 50% of their time gathering data and analysing it for use in different reports. Now the focus is gradually moving off simply collecting data and onto benchmarking against the marketplace and using the data to good effect internally. |