Employment Law Update
Welcome
Welcome to the August edition of the Employment Law Update – the edition that is read on beaches and around pools all over Europe and far flung holiday destinations. In the unlikely event that you are actually doing that, you may be interested to hear that according to a happiness index (which is a bit like saying “according to a Unicorn I met in the pub”) people who live in Harrogate and Shrewsbury are the happiest in the land. They, of course, won’t be reading about employment law today – they are too busy partying in Betty’s Tea Rooms to have any such concerns.
People who live in Dagenham and Barking on the other hand… well, the superb (and sadly no longer with us) comedian, Linda Smith, once said of her home town Erith “It’s not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham.” I’ll leave it at that. Southampton has had another year of mid-table mediocrity – largely content but it can have its moments (essentially it can be summed up by the emoticon with the straight face ? ). But it aspires to getting into the European next year, provided Liverpool doesn’t buy up all its best fun and jollity again during the summer recess.
In the latest edition of our newsletter, we round-up all the activity DC Employment Solicitors has been engaged in over the last month plus a couple of interesting developments such as our article about the National Living Wage and our article on private counselling written by Darren Tibble for CBT Rehabilitation.
And Finally…
Water… It gives me no joy (in fact, quite the opposite) to report that a hotel in Northern Ireland has announced a new “water menu”, offering a choice of 13 different types of bottled water together with a ‘water sommelier’.
The menu starts with the bog-standard English water (probably an ill-advised turn of phrase in the circumstances) at £4.95 a bottle but tops out at, what the tabloids might call, an ‘eye-watering’ £26.45 for a bottle of Iceberg from the Canadian Arctic Ice Shelf. I mention this not for fun but more as a public service announcement, as there are people walking around amongst us in our communities who are happy to pay £26 for a bottle of water. I’ve heard that polar bears are weeping, while humans not only melt, but now drink, their habitat. Tears that are probably being bottled as we speak.
Enjoy your holidays (and for the record, the word ‘sommelier’ is strictly defined and should be reserved for someone in charge of the good stuff, not the bland stuff)…
