UK: GOVERNMENT PLAN TO CHANGE BUSINESS CULTURE

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Plans for flexible hours and shorter working weeks will be introduced by the UK government on 9 March 2000 in what will amount to a radical change in business culture and hopefully reduce the cost to business of absent workers. Management consultants will receive GB[pound] 1.5mn in funding over two-year from the government and will visit firms in the private sector to examine the feasibility of imposing more flexible working arrangements, including home working, job sharing and three-day weeks. It is hoped that such moves will boost productivity, cut the number of sick days and allow savings to be attained in training employees because workers would be more willing to stay loyal to the company. It is estimated by the Confederation of British Industry that absence at work cost UK business GB[pound] 10bn in 1999.

Manpower Planning, Work Schedules, Employee Training, Laws, regulations and rules, Work hours, Human resource planning

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UK: GOVERNMENT PROPOSES CORPORATE KILLING RULE

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The UK government is recommending that a new criminal offence be introduced to prosecute public bodies, businesses and charities in the wake of a number of disasters that have failed to culminate in any convictions. Major changes to the law governing involuntary manslaughter were revealed on 23 May 2000 by Home Secretary, Jack Straw, meaning that organisations found guilty of corporate killing will suffer unlimited fines. Reckless killing is the most serious offence that can be levelled and could lead to life imprisonment for an individual, if it is proven that they were conscious that serious injury or death could result from their conduct. The Southall and Clapham rail disasters and the fire at King's Cross are among a number of incidents where attempts to prosecute have ended in failure.

Manslaughter

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Three steps to making work pay

Article Abstract:

The UK government is determined to tackle poverty and unemployment by ensuring that ordinary people are property rewarded for working. In many cases, the gains to work have been too low, but the government believes that the introduction of key initiatives, including the national minimum wage, the 10p starting rate of tax and the first phase of reforms to the National Insurance system, will resolve this problem. The average income of a family with one earner and children under 11 will rise considerably.

Government domestic functions, Minimum Wages, Administration of Human Resource Programs (except Education, Public Health, and Veterans' Affairs Programs), Income Security, Column, Social policy, Domestic economic assistance

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