The following stories available online from the current issue of IPD's People Management magazine:-

UK Budget 99: special report
In designing tax reforms to boost skills and make employment pay, chancellor Gordon Brown has given HR much to do...

Blunkett drops Tec review
The long-awaited review of training and enterprise councils has been ditched on the eve of its expected publication...

'Sexist' City firms under fire
Despite changing attitudes in many sectors, the glass ceiling remains firmly in place in the Square Mile...

Firms ignoring cyber risks
Despite a huge increase in e-mail and Internet use by staff, companies are failing to take even basic precautions to protect themselves against liabilities...

New radicalism in Liverpool
Personnel staff will have a key role to play in cutting inefficiency and improving services, in a city once notorious as a hotbed of political miltancy...

Call for 'holistic' health policy
A behavioural medicine expert has stressed the need to take into account the psychological aspects of illness...

Scotland to focus on skills
There are high hopes that the new Scottish Parliament will meet the challenge of skills shortages head-on...

VSO gets down to business
Managers are being invited to take time off to go abroad and help businesses - and not only for charity...

plus various other opinion, review and editorial postings.