Economic slowdown reduces impact of migrant worker drain

Work-related migration from the eight central and eastern European countries has fallen to its lowest level since 2004. Many sectors such as agriculture will be concerned about filling jobs in the short term as this coincides with the gradual introduction of a points-based system for managing migration outside the EU. Click on the link above to find out more.

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In this issue you can discover how the International Air Transport Association is improving leadership to cross the cultural divide. Also, there's a chance for you to get connected with fellow professionals in our networking section.

Alison Gilbertson
Editor

Understand, manage and improve absence rates in your organisation with our practical tools and advice.

How to integrate different corporate cultures

In an ever more globalised business environment, how can culturally diverse teams learn to work together? Ben Bryant and Karsten Jonsen report for People Management on an unusual leadership development programme that helped one global organisation to cross the cultural divide.

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 Book your place for Ben Bryant's masterclass at our Annual Conference
 Browse the 2008 Annual Conference seminar programme
 Go to our factsheet on leadership
 Get Adair's Leadership Development Activities toolkit

Government consults over flexible working

The Government is to consider whether to scrap some of the paperwork associated with flexible working requests.

Final salary pensions 'like gold dust'

Less than a fifth of final salary schemes are now open to new employees.

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HR in today's newspapers

Members can use our daily HR news service to keep up to date with what everyone is talking about. It provides a summary of the latest HR stories in the national press.

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HR jobs

Highlighted roles this week:

Director of International HR Communications      £80-100k, Maidenhead, Berkshire	More HR director jobs
Global Reward Manager   £50-70k, Woking	More reward manager jobs
Employee Relations Manager     £22-25 per hour, South London	More jobs in employee relations
HR Adviser   To £43k, North London	More HR adviser jobs

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