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Business Development: Playing The Right Card
Leor Franks
15 August 2011
Getting rid of maternity leave
David Cameron’s strategy director Steve Hilton reportedly suggested that the solution to the economic crisis is to abolish maternity leave. He believes this will cut red tape and kick start the economy. This is less “blue sky thinking” and more “living in cloud cuckoo land”.
13 July 2011
Modern workplaces and red tape
Yesterday I attended a fascinating debate at the TUC. It was chaired by Louisa Peacock at the Daily/Sunday Telegraph and the two principle speakers were David Frost, Director General of the British Chambers of Commerce, and Brendan Barber, the TUC General Secretary, alongside Jo Lloyd, non-executive director of a small to medium size marketing company (Z Cards), and Siobhan Endean of the Union Unite.
8 July 2011
Should Employers prioritise unemployed Britons in their recruitment processes over foreign workers?
Ian Duncan-Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, stoked the coals of controversy recently by urging employers in the UK to “give our young people a chance, and not fall back on labour from abroad”. The issue is still a hot potato four years after Gordon Brown’s ill-fated campaign in 2007 to create “British jobs for British workers”.
1 July 2011
Lies, damned lies and statistics? – what the Employment Tribunal statistics and trends tell us
Statistics relating to the Employment Tribunals have recently been released for the year 2010 to 2011 (click here for the details).
30 June 2011
Employers should act now as bribery act comes into force
The Bribery Act 2010 finally comes into force this Friday, the 1st July 2011. The Act completely rewrites the law in this area, and will have far-reaching implications for employers, directors, partners, and senior personnel.