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The recent deal struck for Frank Lampard and the proposed new contract for Michael Owen is for me the tipping point, I have always been against salary capping but the sums now being offered to little above average or injury prone players is just ridiculous. Alan Sugar once said that, “Money goes through a club like a laxative and straight into the players’ pockets”. it was one of the best ways to sum up the state of football today. If you are Chelsea it does not matter, if you are Man U you keep up the pretence of being able to afford it, and if you are the rest you make do with other top teams cast-offs. Or like Arsenal you “grow your own”. Read more
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The number of final salary pension schemes that remain open to new members has dropped to an all-time low.

Of the 100 final salary schemes surveyed for Aon Consulting’s 2008 Employer Survey, just 17% are still open to new members, compared to 28% in 2007 and 50% in 2003. Of those that still offer a final salary scheme to new entrants, 32% said that closing the scheme was “too painful” to contemplate, which is up from the 17% that said the same last year.

Over three-quarters (81%) of employers, however, are continuing to allow further pension accrual for scheme members, mainly to remain competitive when looking to retain employees. Read more
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According to new findings, human resources (HR) employees are seeing a massive increase in their workload, but are happier than ever.

Recruitment consultants Badenoch and Clark’s Happiness at Work Index found that 94 per cent of personnel managers claimed to be satisfied in their roles, a rise of 18 percentage points in three months.

However, it seems that being busy doesn’t suit everyone - 29 per cent of the 1,086 workers asked said they had resigned due to an increasing workload. Read more
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Human resources (HR) employees are facing much heavier workloads but are happier in their roles than they were three months ago, a new poll said.

The survey, which was conducted by recruitment firm Badenoch and Clark and questioned 1,086 HR employees, found that 94 per cent were content in their roles.

However, 29 per cent of employees did not react well to the stress, claiming they have handed in their resignation. Read more
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Demand for third-party executive search services is increasing as business process outsourcing (BPO) service providers grow rapidly and expand globally, human resource solutions provider ExcelAsia said Wednesday.

A recent international survey by the Association of Executive Search Consultants (AESC) confirmed high demand across industries for senior financial, human resource, and professional services executives in Asia Pacific. Forty-four percent of search consultants participating in the survey reported strong demand for chief financial officers and human resource executives while 38 percent indicated demand for professional services executives. Read more
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The HR chief of outsourcing giant Capgemini has spoken of the importance of working with transferred staff in making a deal work.

HR director Robert Ingram said lots of effort was needed to get staff motivated after they are transferred to outsourcing providers.

Capgemini has a global workforce of more than 15,000. It looks after back-office functions for many large private and public sector clients in the UK. Read more
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Most HR managers for the past few years have been reading about the pending talent shortage their companies will face once the baby boomers retire. Yet few of them have the backing of their CEOs to start addressing the issue.

The problem is, HR often doesn’t have the data to back up the belief that their companies will be affected as the baby boomers leave the workforce, experts say.

“Until they feel it, many CEOs tend to not take action,” says Jamie Hale, practice leader of workforce planning at Watson Wyatt Worldwide. Read more
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Average salary projections for the coming year are lower by almost a percentage point at 13.9 per cent, although the year 2008 has seen a strong average salary increase of 14.8 per cent, according to a study by Hewitt Associates.

The projections for 2009 are slightly lower than the increases in 2008 across sectors, with telecom being the only sector registering an increase. The telecom sector is projected to see continued growth, especially with the advent of five new players over the last one year. Read more
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The Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) is going to organizing a one-day international HR conference on August 23 at a local hotel.

The conference is first of its kind in Lahore and will be attended by HR professionals from all over the country. The conference is being coordinated by LCCI’s TQM Committee, headed by its Chairman Ahmad Qureshi, duly assisted by Co-Chairman Hassan Amjad.

The objective of the conference, to be chaired by LCCI Acting President Mian Muzaffar Ali as patron-in-chief of the event, is to make HR practitioners globally acceptable besides giving them an idea of modern HR tools being practiced in the developed countries of the world. Read more
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Actonomy, the world wide provider of next generation searching & matching software and knowledge bases for the HR industry announced the release of the largest HR knowledge Base for Recruiters by Recruiters’ to help decreasing the gap in the labour market supply and demand.

Actonomy xMP searching and matching software is targeting the most efficient ‘finding process’ of candidates (and vacancies) by emulating the way a recruiter searches for candidates. Read more
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