Contents of HR Studies Update for June 2004 (Study 776)

Career breaks and sabbaticals

Many employees now want the flexibility to take an extended period away from work to travel abroad, study, look after children or older relatives, or simply to recharge their batteries. Our special feature looks at how employers are increasingly accommodating such requests by offering career beaks or sabbaticals that enable valuable employees eventually to return to their job ...more details

Also in this Update:

Information and Consultation: Nine months to go

The potential implications for UK employee relations

New staff council: Two Saints Housing Association

The challenge of establishing an effective staff council in an organisation without a tradition of formal consultation

HR service delivery: AstraZeneca

New customer-focused HR operating model incorporates an HR service centre, HR specialists and business partners

Training statistics: Latest surveys

In the second of a series on HR metrics, we look at survey data from the CIPD and the National Employers Skills Survey

HR round-up

• Novel group-wide redeployment plan for AA call centre workers
• Network of union learning reps set up at Southampton City Council
• Employees at Prudential given time at work to plan their finances