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How Immigration impacts Business - update your knowledge at our next Seminar!

Thursday 17th May 2012

Our next lunchtime seminar on 6th June 2012, is being hosted by Grace McGill, an experienced Immigration Law Practioner from McGill & Co. She will be giving an update on relevant changes to legislation to UK Immigration, giving insight into landmark case studies and highlighting of what can go wrong for employers in relation to right to work. We will also have a short quiz to test your knowledge and keep you on the right track!

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Jennifer Grant

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Eflyers and Urgent Updates

Dear Dissertation Diary

Tuesday 8th May 2012

Part three of my dissertation diary.

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Jennifer Grant

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Learning & Development

Dear Dissertation Diary

Thursday 12th April 2012

The next installment of my personal progress on writing my dissertation. Read on to find out how I am getting on....

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Jennifer Grant

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Learning & Development

Gravitate HR featured in New Business Magazine!

Thursday 29th March 2012

New Business (52,000 circulation) have featured Elaine's article on how employers can prepare for the Olympic games. You can view it here: http://www.newbusiness.co.uk/articles/hrpayroll-advice/employer-guidance-olympics-games-2012

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Jennifer Grant

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Employment Policies

Are you planning Pay Reviews for 2012?

Thursday 29th March 2012

I listened in on a CIPD ‘webinar' recently about pay reviews for 2012. It was interesting to gain a global outlook of the influences on pay in larger companies, and I will add my thoughts in this post on how this could affect the SME sector. The presenters of the webinar looked at predicted inflation rates and economic growth and found that in certain ‘bright spot’ industries such as construction, there may be a 3% pay increase for 2012. Certainly, some industries such as oil and gas, have withstood the force of a recession. On the whole however, pay increases for employees are looking bleak – contributed by rising unemployment meaning an excess supply of labour, difficulties for areas such as the house building market and voluntary and public sector pay freezes and budget cuts.

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Jennifer Grant

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Employment Policies