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Investigating Outsourcing
An insider\'s view on the issues, trends and controversies around outsourcing and IT services.
March 2010
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Will skills transfer be open to abuse by overseas IT firms?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 31 Mar 2010 -
Immigration poilitical hot potato will mean promises galore for ICT shake-up
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 31 Mar 2010 -
Lobby group distances itself from claims it influenced immigration policy for Indian suppliers
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 31 Mar 2010
Strengthening the Points-Based System Changes to the rules regarding oversees workers coming to the UK on Intra Company Transfers are an attempt to control alleged abuses to the system, but will a ...
Gordon Brown is today going to outline his policies on immigration. He is expected to put a stop to the immigration of unskilled workers.Immigration is a political hot potato. Apparently the second ...
Cross industry parliamentary lobby group Eurim has distanced itself from allegations that its chairman MP Margaret Moran used her influence to change the government's immigration policy.The story ...
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Parliamentary lobby group brags of changing ICT rules
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 29 Mar 2010 -
Our ousted IT blogger has landed a job
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 29 Mar 2010 -
Is there a bright side for L&G IT staff as they face transfer to a supplier?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 25 Mar 2010 -
Another IT supplier strike threatens customer continuity
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 24 Mar 2010 -
Foreign workers in the UK could be in for a pay rise
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 24 Mar 2010 -
Internal email reveals difficult times for Legal & General IT staff
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 23 Mar 2010 -
Is the government services sell off Labour's privatisation?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 23 Mar 2010
This is an interesting story.Apparently the chairman of the EURIM lobby group has bragged that she has influenced government policy on behalf of its IT supplier members.Margaret Moran, the ...
This is part eleven of a series of blog posts written by an IT professional that was ousted when his employer offshored IT jobs. This week will sadly be the last of the blog posts because the ...
The latest outsourcing plans by Legal & General made me think about how the staff must feel receiving an email which basically said that if a contract is signed "you will probably not work here ...
Staff at HP working at organisations, including the Department of Work and Pensions, are going to strike for four days. These strikes will be split into two separate 48 hour walk outs.This is ...
A campaigner against abuses of the Intra Company Transfer scheme has provided me with some comment about some of the changes the government recently introduced to prevent abuse.He outlines that the ...
It seems that Legal & General.s plans to outsource its It infrastructure are quite advanced. IBM or Fujitsu are likley to win the business which is currently an in-house service carried out by ...
I was interested to read that the government's plans to create public services service providers seems to have moved on since I wrote about it in December.Gordon Brown used a speech this week to ...
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Ousted IT blogger has highs and lows but occupies himself
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 23 Mar 2010 -
Government changes IT immigration rules
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 21 Mar 2010 -
BBC IT workers in favour of strike
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 21 Mar 2010 -
Will BBC IT staff vote for strike and shut Cameron, Clegg and Brown up?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 18 Mar 2010 -
Legal & General is having detailed discussions with more than one IT outsourcing supplier
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 18 Mar 2010
This is part ten of a series of blog posts written by an IT professional that was ousted when his employer offshored IT jobs. This week he talks about the highs and lows of jobseeking.See part 1, ...
The government has made some changes to the law regarding workers from overseas working in the UK for their employers.This comes after some advice from the Migration advisory Committe back in ...
I had meetings on friday and was unable to update you on the situation at the BBC.Well, the result of the ballot of Siemens workers who are members of th Bectu union at the BBC has been revealed.A ...
Tomorrow (19 March) is the day when the result of the ballot of Siemens workers at the BBC , who are members of the union Bectu, is revealed.This is yet another example of the risks businesses take ...
This is an update to my earlier blog.I have had a more comprehensive response from L & G to my question: Are your outsourcing your Business Technology Serives to IBM?"Legal & General has ...