Work Pays

27 / 03 / 2013

Keeping up with the rapidly changing world of employment law often seems to be impossible, especially when considering all the proposed changes to family friendly working. It’s mind-boggling to get your head round all the legislative changes coming into force over the next few years, and one further plan that’s been announced by the Government recently will enable some parents...

Facebook Conduct That Goes Too Far

26 / 03 / 2013

Love it or hate it, social media has become such a big part of life in recent years that it now affects all of us. Even if we’re not directly involved on Twitter, LinkedIn or Facebook, we’ve all heard of it. Employers know that while it can offer business opportunities, it can also have a negative impact in workplaces. I’ve...

Debt Stress? What About Workplace Stress?

25 / 03 / 2013

We humans are tremendous worriers aren’t we? We worry when things are going well about what might go wrong in the future, we worry when things are actually going wrong. If we’re not worrying about something we worry about it (I know – just a tad perverse but people do it all the time!). How many times have you lain...

Comic Relief and Workplace Illnesses

22 / 03 / 2013

Last Friday was Comic Relief and many businesses will have been doing something funny for money. Sadly we couldn’t because we were packing up for our move two minutes from our current office. Don’t ever be fooled into thinking a short transfer distance is a less stressful move. It isn’t! But elsewhere in the UK, people were running round in...

Chopping the Mop

21 / 03 / 2013

Dress codes can be surprisingly emotive. In the last few years we’ve heard of a number which have been challenged in connection with a protected characteristic. Most recently, the European Court of Justice was asked to rule about British sirways banning of visible jewellery, including crucixes in the case of Eewida, finding that British Airways’ dress code discriminated against her...