“You have not been forgotten. You have not been left behind. We all stand together.” These were the words spoken by the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, this evening as he announced unprecedented support for self-employed workers to cope with...
Please note this is very much headline news and we will be updating this article as soon as we receive further detail on the Government’s announcements. This evening the Chancellor has announced “unprecedented” and comprehensive support...
Welcome Chat about football or cricket in the workplace should be curtailed, says Chartered Management Institute head Ann Francke. This, she says, is because sports banter can exclude women and lead to laddish behaviour. “They don’t...
Welcome Happy New Year to one and all. We trust you came through the festive break unscathed. If not, I hope your Christmas party wasn’t as eventful as the one in the And Finally section below. If you were sent the following Government job advert...
Welcome “May you live in interesting times” is purportedly a traditional Chinese curse. Seemingly a blessing, the opposite is actually intended. Well, we do live in interesting times and I’m not just referring to the debacle currently taking...
Welcome With summer holidays beginning to peter out, thoughts may be turning towards the autumn and recruitment. If so, bear in mind last week’s report commissioned by the recruiter Milkround which found that 3/5ths of university leavers were put...
Welcome With Summer in full swing I imagine you have your shades on and you’re sitting by a pool drinking whatever it is trendy people drink these days (I assume it’s a fancy gin and something but I’ve stopped trying to keep up), hushing the...
Welcome As Elizabeth Barrett Browning (almost) wrote: How do I discriminate against thee Let me count the ways Well, had she been around in the 70’s Browning might have been sonnetting about, what now seem to be, extraordinary job adverts. Our...
Welcome The newspapers have widely reported that the Duke of Sussex (Harry – 36, from Windsor) will take his full two weeks of paternity leave when the Duchess (Megan, 37, from Los Angeles) gives birth. A friend of the Prince (and with ‘friends’...
Welcome The Sunday Times recently reported on some unintended consequences of the “Me Too” campaign. Following the stream of allegations and convictions concerning discrimination and harassment in the workplace, men are now apparently frightened...
Welcome February brings our second Employment Update of the year. We’ve seen off the first month of the year and its accompanying horror – ‘Dry January’. It’s not so much the act of people not having an alcoholic drink for...
Welcome Happy New Year to you all! This employment law update has, in the past, been described as both “mildly amusing” and “reasonably informative” – we’ll take that. But unfortunately, the description “sporadic” has crept into the picture...
