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The corporate world may be actively pursuing initiatives to improve gender diversity within senior management teams, but progress appears slow.
Almost half (44%) of employees in the transport and distribution industry don’t feel valued by their employer, according to new research from payroll and HR systems provider Moorepay. This is the joint highest percentage of any sector, along with retail.
Europa Worldwide Group MD Andrew Baxter has announced a RAPID Career Development Programme campaign. As a businessman who didn’t go to university and started working straight from school, Baxter is a strong advocate of learning on the job.
An interactive workshop being hosted by Scania and the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden will explore how digital technologies will shape the future of work. It is being led by Fresh Thinking Labs – which describes itself as a UK-based international open source movement for workplace innovation, combining state of the art online interactions with in person opportunities for knowledge sharing with other companies and leading practitioners.
Drivers face new challenges in era of change by David Coombes MD, Skills for Logistics We’re now two years into the Large Goods Vehicle Driver apprenticeship, and while we are seeing increasing uptake month on month it is still only scratching the surface in addressing the continuing driver shortage.
UK parcel carrier Yodel has appointed Jayne James as director of international services.
Apprenticeships offer a golden opportunity, says Skills for Logistics MD David Coombes.
The HGV driver shortage has prompted Wimbledon-based logistics business ELB Partners to turn to XMR, a specialist recruitment agency for ex-military drivers, to find skilled, reliable drivers.
The DHL UK Foundation has invested £1.8m in the employability of young people in the UK in the current academic year, involving 275 activities delivered to 10,000 secondary school students.
The steps transport and logistics firms can take to attract more young people into the industry will be outlined at a seminar session to be held as part of a Future Skills Theatre at the IMHX show at the Birmingham NEC on the morning of 24 September.