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Comment: employment: up the workers!
As the tide of individual CSR measures in the workplace grows by the day, are the voices of employees in danger of being drowned out?
Uncovered: the
government's health and
safety strategy
The government's new workplace health and safety strategy is strangely familiar: set out the business case, provide best practice case studies, and benchmark to judge performance. CSR managers should feel right at home, Michelle Dow argues.
 
Skills: responsible
outsourcing – an
oxymoron?
As companies directly employ fewer and fewer people in low skills, low wage jobs, can responsible business respond to the economic logic of cost saving while keeping its principles intact?
Comment: skills:
responsible outsourcing –
an oxymoron?
As companies directly employ fewer and fewer people in low skills, low wage jobs, can responsible business respond to the economic logic of cost saving while keeping its principles intact?
 
Learning the lessons of
the future
An educated, well equipped workforce is clearly in the interests for business. But it requires companies to bring their energy to the table if today’s young people are to contribute to an equal, prosperous future, argues WH Smith’s chairman.
Comment: HIV/AIDS
Twenty years on from the AIDS killer becoming understood, we still seem to be debating what to do. The human consequences of inaction are more dreadful than ever.
 
HIV/AIDS
Twenty years on from the AIDS killer becoming understood, we still seem to be debating what to do. The human consequences of inaction are more dreadful than ever.
A one pager on . . . new
laws on religious and
sexual diversity
From December 2003, new legislation banning workplace discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation, and religion or belief came into force.
Briefing sums up what it means, and doesn't mean, for employers.
 
A one pager on . . .
bribery, corruption and
whistleblowing
With the UN declaring December 9 as the international day for anti-corruption, Briefing provides a short overview on the subject.
Comment: skills
The statistics lose none of their power to shock despite constant repetition. Seven million people in the UK lack basic skills.
 
Skills
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