Shared Parental Leave – Take It or Leave It?
03 / 05 / 2016
A recent study by the TUC suggests that fathers working full time receive a 21% wage “bonus” in comparison with male employees who do not have children. The TUC suggests that the differential can be partly explained by fathers working longer hours and putting in increased effort at work. Labour market figures show that men with children work slightly longer...
Religious Festivals in The Workplace
28 / 04 / 2016
Passover or Pesach began on the evening of Friday, April 22nd and ends on the evening of Saturday, April 30th .One of the most important events in the Jewish calendar, Passover is an eight-day festival which commemorates the emancipation of the Israelites from slavery in ancient Egypt. It’s written that at a particular period in their history the Jews were...
Trigger for Collective Redundancy
26 / 04 / 2016
Large scale redundancies are in the news at the moment. Last weekend we learned that another giant of the British high street, BHS, has gone into administration. Unless a buyer is found to keep the retailed going 11,000 employees are likely to lose their jobs. Two weeks ago the Indian company Tata announced it is cutting more than 1,000 jobs....
Managing Performance in the Workplace
21 / 04 / 2016
The Independent Chief Inspector of Border and Immigration published his report on border force operations at Manchester airport recently. It included a section on the sniffer dogs and their activities between November 2014 and June 2015. Over the seven month review period the airport sniffer dogs helped find around 46,000 cigarettes, 60kg of tobacco, 181kg of illegal meat and £28,000...
Young Workers and Mental Health
15 / 04 / 2016
Being a young worker stepping out of education into the workplace is challenging and it can take time to adjust to the ‘real world’. Education and work are completely different. There’s no longer any hand holding and no one there to tell you what to write and how to write it. Just weaning younger workers off their view that they...