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When the credit crunch first hit and it was clear that we were going into recession, it was noticeable that attitudes between employers and staff were very different from previous economic crises. Rather than making staff redundant many employers introduced shortened working weeks, or sabbaticals from work. Employees responded by donating time or taking on extra, unpaid tasks. Read the rest of this entry »
David Beckham has confirmed what many Manchester United fans always suspected, that he would have loved to have spent his entire career at the club. He is quoted as saying “I’ve been to three great clubs since I left United, but it would’ve been great to stay there like Ryan Giggs has. Being at one club for so long is a real achievement.” Of course, for many people David Beckham has a dream job anyway. Nevertheless, the fact that he sees staying at one club for the duration of his career as a great achievement tells us a lot about what it must be like to work in the highly mobile world of football. Read the rest of this entry »
The NSPCC have called for legislation empowering social workers to see children without their parents present. They believe this would enable social workers to identify victims of abuse more easily, without the parents being able to pull the wool over their eyes. However, the social workers, Unison, and the British Association of Social Workers oppose the move, saying that the powers already exist and that further legislation is unnecessary. Read the rest of this entry »
Just when you thought that football had found every possible way to dominate the headlines, the beautiful game has developed a new twist. The Red Knights, who are seeking to reverse several years of takeovers of British football clubs by wealthy owners through a hostile bid to acquire Manchester United from the American Glazer family, have found themselves embroiled in a new row. One of the leading figures in the Red Knights is Jim O’Neill, chief economist with Goldman Sachs. The Glazers bank with Goldman Sachs. And guess what they are reported to have told the bank? And what the bank have told Jim O’Neill? Read the rest of this entry »
Plans have just been published to assist sufferers from autism to find work more easily. This is an overdue and welcome announcement from government which accepts that autism sufferers have been excluded from the workplace for far too long. Read the rest of this entry »
A campaign launched today by the Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Alliance has called on employers to do more ro help people with back, neck and joint problems to stay in work. Skeletal pain has a significant impact on the ability to work, it costs society 7bn per year and has a most debilitating impact on the lives of sufferers. But like many campaigns, this one seems to somewhat unrealistic. Read the rest of this entry »
The civil service union PCS is planning industrial action this month, in protest against cuts to its members’ redundancy terms. This is an unusual reason for strike action, but it reflects the rather dodgy nature of the changes that are being planned. Civil service workers, who are facing severe budget cuts and hence significant redundancies, are being told that in addition to their jobs being at risk, they will also receive a worse redundancy settlement than they are currently entitled to. Read the rest of this entry »
The BBC TV programme The Day The Immigrants Left conducted an experiment to see whether British born workers were prepared to work as hard as immigrants from Eastern Europe. The findings, not surprisingly, were that in extremis most British workers will do the same jobs, for the same pay, as their Eastern European colleagues, but much more reluctantly. Read the rest of this entry »
Bullying is this week’s hot work-related news topic. Who did it, who didn’t do it, and what was said by who to whom. But bullying at work is not just some political football to be thrown onto the field during phantom election campaigns; it is the one of most serious workplace issues we confront as a society, up there with stress as the main reasons why people absent themselves from work. Read the rest of this entry »
When Amy Williams became the first British solo gold medallist at the Winter Olympics since 1980, her sister Ruth said: “It’s fantastic. Amy has lived her dream”. How exciting for Amy. But how sad for the rest of us that living the dream is such a rare and wonderful thing to happen that it needs to be remarked upon. Read the rest of this entry »