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...
As you will have seen in our January newsletter, as part of the Good Work Plan, coming into effect on 6 April 2020, the holiday pay reference period used for determining a week’s pay is increasing from 12 weeks to 52 weeks. But, in practice, what...
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...
Holiday Pay • E-Cigarettes • Twitter Tribunal To steal Mark Twain’s much repeated letter concerning his health, reports of the Update’s death have been greatly exaggerated. The Update is still in fine fettle – it’s the writer who has suffered...
