Welcome With Spring having (apparently) sprung, welcome to this month’s Update. My mention of the time of year is (you’ll be unsurprised to hear) a clumsy segue into some news from France about spring cleaning, housework and whether shirking...
I appreciate there are now greater concerns world-wide, but you’ve probably had as much as you can take in terms of existential misery, none more so than the poor and brave Ukrainians. So, we’ll concentrate on employment law and pretend for just...
Welcome to our first Update of 2022. Happy New Year and this year ‘things can only get better’ (as Brian Cox once sang in his band D-Ream before he became Professor Brian Cox and all-round smiley universe expert). We say goodbye to another year...
Welcome Chat about football or cricket in the workplace should be curtailed, says Chartered Management Institute head Ann Francke. This, she says, is because sports banter can exclude women and lead to laddish behaviour. “They don’t...
Welcome Happy New Year to one and all. We trust you came through the festive break unscathed. If not, I hope your Christmas party wasn’t as eventful as the one in the And Finally section below. If you were sent the following Government job advert...
Welcome “May you live in interesting times” is purportedly a traditional Chinese curse. Seemingly a blessing, the opposite is actually intended. Well, we do live in interesting times and I’m not just referring to the debacle currently taking...
