Email Etiquette and Data Protection
07 / 09 / 2015
Last week, human error at an HIV clinic 56 Dean Street, a sexual health clinic operated as part of Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust meant that details of 780 patients were disclosed. The data breach was committed through the email circulation of the clinic's "OptionE" newsletter to HIV positive patients. Those on the database should have been blind copied...
Living Wage Blasted by Businesses and Unions
04 / 09 / 2015
When George Osborne and Iain Duncan Smith unveiled the National Living Wage back in July, to come into force at £7.20 per hour for the over 25s in April 2016, it outstripped Ed Miliband’s promise on the NMW. The aim was also to ensure that “work always pays” so that wages are well above benefits. Given that many SMEs operating...
Guilt by Association
01 / 09 / 2015
People get terribly bent out of shape when they talk about discrimination. Let’s be clear. Discrimination of itself isn’t wrong or unlawful. It just means being selective. It’s wrong when you take generally irrelevant or inappropriate factors, such as gender, into consideration in making a decision. Nor is discrimination about treating people the same – a common misconception. It’s about...
It’s Who You Know: Using Referrals in Recruitment
28 / 08 / 2015
Recruitment is an imprecise art. You can spend thousands on advertising, put candidates through tests, ask them do presentations, and interview them until you’re blue in the face, and you still cannot know for sure how good an individual is really going to be at working in your company, with your people, dealing with your problems. A number of companies...
Time is Money and the Power of Focus
26 / 08 / 2015
But what else is money? I’ve often said ‘sanity doesn’t come with a price’, although usually in relation to my children! One of my clients didn’t even have time for a consultation, he was so disinterested in shopping! But he was getting married to one of my friends and his future wife knew exactly how to look stunning thanks to...