Improving workplace relations
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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...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 […]
Continue reading...We (OK, a few of us) were on tenterhooks waiting for the publication of the Taylor Report into employment practices in the UK, but will it make things clearer or further muddy the waters? Uber, Deliveroo and Pimlico Plumbers have all been answering legal questions about the legitimacy of a business model that sees them, […]
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