A selection of HR news on the web:

 

20th of May, Personneltoday.com: Fingerprint technology could soon be used across the UK to monitor employees' movements, after a pilot scheme was deemed successful. The system allows several HR roles to be carried out automatically when a worker presses their finger on a touch screen. Read more

 

20th of May, Hrmagazine.co.uk: An extra 4.5 million parents will gain the right to request flexible working when it is extended to workers with children aged up to 16, the Government announced today.

Business secretary John Hutton has accepted recommendations made in the much anticipated review of flexible working, conducted by Sainsbury’s HR director, Imelda Walsh, at the request of the Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform last year. Read more

 

20th of May, Peoplemanagement.co.uk: The government is to earmark £200 million to try to fill skills gaps in growth areas such as science and engineering, John Denham, the secretary of state for innovation, universities and skills, is to tell employers. Denham will announce at a meeting planned with business leaders next month that he is willing to allocate specific training funds for strategic sectors of the economy, such as science, engineering, finance, construction and IT.  Read more