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		<title>Executive pay to be linked to rank-and-file salaries</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vince Cable, the Business Secretary, said that shareholders would get new powers to enforce executives’ pay deals, and that they would be told to take account of “pay differentials” between the best-paid and ordinary workers. Independent analysts said the changes &#8230; <a href="http://onycconsulting.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/executive-pay-to-be-linked-to-rank-and-file-salaries/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onycconsulting.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15445546&amp;post=2190&amp;subd=onycconsulting&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>News Work/life balance ranks higher than stress as the biggest health concern for employers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 18:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Work/life balance is the top health and wellbeing concern for employers – ahead of stress and mental health issues – according to a survey of medium and large employers by Group Risk Development (GRiD). After enduring a difficult year where &#8230; <a href="http://onycconsulting.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/news-worklife-balance-ranks-higher-than-stress-as-the-biggest-health-concern-for-employers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onycconsulting.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15445546&amp;post=2183&amp;subd=onycconsulting&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EU pensions regime could cost UK employers £500 billion and decimate jobs market, experts claim</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 18:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Employers would have to inject at least £300 billion into their final salary (defined benefit) pensions if a new EU law goes ahead, causing damage to the UK economy and jobs market. The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) warned &#8230; <a href="http://onycconsulting.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/eu-pensions-regime-could-cost-uk-employers-500-billion-and-decimate-jobs-market-experts-claim/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onycconsulting.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15445546&amp;post=2181&amp;subd=onycconsulting&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UK employees&#8217; two billion hours of unpaid overtime could create one million jobs, says TUC</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 18:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The two billion hours of unpaid overtime worked last year would be enough to create over a million extra full-time jobs, according to the TUC. The total amount of unpaid overtime worked last year was 1,968 million hours &#8211; worth &#8230; <a href="http://onycconsulting.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/uk-employees-two-billion-hours-of-unpaid-overtime-could-create-one-million-jobs-says-tuc/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onycconsulting.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15445546&amp;post=2178&amp;subd=onycconsulting&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2011 in review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 3,000 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it &#8230; <a href="http://onycconsulting.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/2011-in-review/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onycconsulting.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15445546&amp;post=2175&amp;subd=onycconsulting&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pensions cuts: ministers are not telling truth say unions</title>
		<link>http://onycconsulting.wordpress.com/2011/11/27/pensions-cuts-ministers-are-not-telling-truth-say-unions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 08:36:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elaineonyc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The row over pension reform that is set to bring two million workers out on strike on Wednesday has become increasingly bitter as Britain&#8217;s top trade unionist accuses ministers of &#8220;deliberately misrepresenting&#8221; the income public sector workers will receive in &#8230; <a href="http://onycconsulting.wordpress.com/2011/11/27/pensions-cuts-ministers-are-not-telling-truth-say-unions/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onycconsulting.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15445546&amp;post=2172&amp;subd=onycconsulting&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Government to launch £250 million vocational training fund</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 08:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elaineonyc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Businesses will be able to bid for a share of a £250 million fund for vocational training programmes in the new year, as part of a government scheme designed to bring more skills into the workforce. The Government announced that &#8230; <a href="http://onycconsulting.wordpress.com/2011/11/20/government-to-launch-250-million-vocational-training-fund/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onycconsulting.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15445546&amp;post=2170&amp;subd=onycconsulting&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>First person to be convicted under the Bribery Act is jailed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 08:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A former court worker who last month becamethe first person to be convicted under the Bribery Act 2010 has been jailed for six years. Munir Patel was convicted of bribery and misconduct in a public office after admitting that he received a &#8230; <a href="http://onycconsulting.wordpress.com/2011/11/20/first-person-to-be-convicted-under-the-bribery-act-is-jailed/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onycconsulting.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15445546&amp;post=2168&amp;subd=onycconsulting&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Employers look increasingly to interim managers to navigate restructuring projects</title>
		<link>http://onycconsulting.wordpress.com/2011/11/20/employers-look-increasingly-to-interim-managers-to-navigate-restructuring-projects/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 08:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The use of interim managers is increasing as employers move to restructure their businesses, according to a report by Green Park Interim and Executive Search. More than one third (35%) of interim managers surveyed said they are increasingly used as &#8230; <a href="http://onycconsulting.wordpress.com/2011/11/20/employers-look-increasingly-to-interim-managers-to-navigate-restructuring-projects/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onycconsulting.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15445546&amp;post=2165&amp;subd=onycconsulting&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HR takes up the challenge to bring diversity to the boardroom</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 08:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past decade, organisations have increasingly trumpeted their policies to try to entice people from different backgrounds to join their ranks. But there is still one last bastion of male, white, middle-aged and middle-class dominance that has seemingly fended &#8230; <a href="http://onycconsulting.wordpress.com/2011/11/20/hr-takes-up-the-challenge-to-bring-diversity-to-the-boardroom/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onycconsulting.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15445546&amp;post=2163&amp;subd=onycconsulting&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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