This is Anti-Bullying Week 2018 (#ABW2018), with a series of events, articles and publications aimed at making the problem of bullying something about which we all know more and are better equipped to stop. As is inevitable, many websites and much of the Anti-Bullying Week 2018 material focuses on bullying amongst children, particularly in schools. […]
Continue reading... October 16, 2018
Putting Mental Health in its Proper Workplace…
Last Wednesday was World Mental Health Day 2018. The day aims to raise awareness of mental health and the issues around it, particularly those that arise from mental ILL-health. I even put out a post on LinkedIn to publicise it, asking followers of my posts “are you going to do anything to mark it?”. At […]
Continue reading... July 17, 2018
A record year for strikes
The Office of National Statistics has recently published its latest figures around industrial disputes, one of the highlights being the record low number of days lost to strikes, with a similar low for other forms of industrial action. So, does this trumpet the success of the Trade Union Act 2016? In short, no. To those […]
Continue reading... June 5, 2018
Business lessons from the ridge
This time last week I had just completed a traverse of the Cuillin Ridge on the Isle of Skye. Having returned to ‘normality’ and processed some of the reactions I had during the 32 hours we were on the mountains, I thought I’d share a few thoughts on how this relates to my work. This […]
Continue reading... April 23, 2018
Are you dying to go home?
28 April each year is International Workers’ Memorial Day (#IWMD18 #IWMD2018) so, for 2018, it falls on Saturday. It’s hard to believe that the world of work is still so dangerous. Many of us underestimate the risk of the things we do each day. How many people in the UK treat driving along the road as the […]
Continue reading... March 8, 2018
International Women’s Day – is it needed?
A recent survey published by Sky News has suggested that a majority of Britons think that feminism has gone far enough. But has it? There are clear contradictions within the findings: 70% of people think men are paid more than women for the same work; 65% believe a man will be favoured over an […]
Continue reading... February 14, 2018
Shared Parental Leave, Another Push?
The Government is running a campaign to encourage new parents to share their parental leave. Shared Parental Leave is an option that’s been available for a couple of years now, but has never really taken off. A recent article in Personnel Today refers to Government figures indicating that only 2% of families have taken up the […]
Continue reading... December 14, 2017
Training in Copenhagen
At the end of November I delivered a training course on Advanced Negotiation Skills. OK, that’s something I’ve done quite frequently over the years, but this course had a slight difference. This was the first course I’ve delivered as an Associate with CEDR. It was wonderful working with my co-trainers: Andy Grossman has been delivering […]
Continue reading... October 6, 2017
SME Sickness Absence – Prevention or Cure, THAT is the Problem…
Most of my blogs have been about topics in the news that I find interesting, or on which I’d like to provoke a little debate, but this time round I thought I’d take a slightly different approach and reach out to people who, like me, run or work for small/micro businesses for whom sickness absence […]
Continue reading... July 27, 2017
Good Riddance to Employment Tribunal Fees
Well, it’s been a long time coming, but the Cameron Government’s decision to charge fees for people to raise claims in the Employment Tribunal has finally been shown to be illegal. In a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court has ruled that charging people up to £1200 so they can challenge the legality of their employer’s […]
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