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HUMAN RESOURCES

When meetings go bad

By Blair McPherson | 24 October 2014

When a politician gatecrashes senior management team meetings they cross the invisible line that ...

BUSINESS

LDL moves back to local authority ownership

By Jamie Hailstone | 21 October 2014

Liverpool City Council’s controversial partnership with BT – Liverpool Direct (LDL) – looks set t...

HUMAN RESOURCES

MJ People 23 October

20 October 2014

HUMAN RESOURCES

Council appeals dismissal case

15 October 2014

A council has decided to appeal the decision of an employment tribunal that criticised the behavi...

HUMAN RESOURCES

Chief waits to hear his fate

By Jamie Hailstone | 14 October 2014

The fate of Carmarthenshire CC chief executive Mark James, who has applied for voluntary redundan...

FINANCE

It's getting tough to find staff

14 October 2014

Squeezed wages and difficult working conditions could make recruitment and retention of quality s...

HUMAN RESOURCES

A change is going to come

13 October 2014

Local authorities should be driving a shift from social productivity to social action, in the sha...

HUMAN RESOURCES

IFS: public sector faces future recruitment and retention challenge

By Jonathan Werran | 10 October 2014

Squeezed wages and difficult working conditions could make recruitment and retention of quality s...

FINANCE

Unions suspend planned walkout

By Jonathan Werran | 09 October 2014

The three main local government trade unions have called off planned strike action next Tuesday -...

HUMAN RESOURCES

Director is suspended

By MJ Correspondent | 01 August 2014

A council has launched an investigation and suspended its strategic director of resources from hi...