Recent news

Latest items of recent news relevant to Global as reported in our fortnightly newswire ‘Dernières nouvelles’. 

Global: Voluntary layoffs

In the summer, British Petroleum announced that it planned to make 15% of its qualifying global workforce redundant by year end, amounting to the loss of 10,000 jobs …

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Global: True flight risks

Since the early Spring, employers have regularly had to contend with the concerns of employees asked to undertake flights who are uncertain about the level of potential exposure to COVID-19 on board passenger aircraft …

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Global: Ecopolitical ‘at risk’ countries

It is not only finance directors in multinationals who need to be cautious about ecopolitical “at risk” countries, but HR should also take a view in respect to job applicants and others with whom they must deal …

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Global: Infection risks

Co-infection of COVID-19 and influenza has been found as one of the major causes of mortality during the pandemic …

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Global: Labour shortages around the World

It remains evident that although the pandemic has thrown huge numbers into short-time work and unemployment, significant pockets of labour shortage continue to remain around the World …

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Global: Ignoring undesirable information

There are many instances in the daily life of an HR professional where ignoring a problem seems a better option than confronting it …

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Global: Tracking coronavirus

A number of organisations are producing regularly updated global maps that allow us to maintain a broad picture of the way COVID-19 is moving through populations …

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Global: Taking disaster seriously

It seems odd to say that people can be bored with disaster, but that is unfortunately what appears to be happening …

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Global: Unpaid leave

FedEE’s helpline has been very busy recently and one of the most frequent questions relates to offering special unpaid leave weeks to take some pressure away from payrolls, especially when furlough schemes come to an end …

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Global: OECD outlook

We continue to be highly sceptical about economic forecasts produced by the OECD – as they appear to contain highly politically massaged figures …

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Global: Mandatory vaccination

Not only are we nearing the point when employers must have in place effective policies for vaccination against COVID-19 – when it becomes available – but, more immediately, whether they should introduce obligatory vaccination against influenza now that the annual round of vaccinations is about to begin …

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Global: Health declaration form

Travelers must remember to fill out a health declaration form prior to departure for a growing number of destinations …

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Global: Politics and employee relations

There has always been a tendency for those in the HR function to try to see their discipline as essentially insular and disconnected from other areas of human knowledge, such as economics and politics …

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Global: Labour shortages

From the Indian auto-sector to the Malaysian palm oil industry and Canadian apple farms, there are huge shortages of labour that are already slowing the global economic recovery …

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Global: What’s in your warehouse?

The recent explosion in Beirut could probably have happened anywhere around the World, but probably not on such a large scale …

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