Job Advice Blog - Good People
The Labour Market and British Society
Last night, a friend of our business - Lindy Griffiths of Sunburst Solutions - was featured on a Panorama programme about unemployment and the over 50s. It showed the difficulties faced by a group of decent, hard working people who had been released by their employers. In our view,...
Towards an ageing workforce
The government has confirmed that it will remove the Default Retirement Age (DRA) and proceed with its plan to phase it out between 6 April and 1st October 2011. The Default Retirement age currently gives employers the power to force workers over the age of 65 to retire regardless of...
Lewdness in the workplace
How lewd is too lewd? Recently in America, US navy captain Owen Honors was relieved of his command of the USS Enterprise due to the videos he made and showed to his crew. The videos were made nearly five years ago, when he was the executive officer of the ship. The videos in question,...
poverty and welfare reforms
"Poverty plus a pound is simply not an ambitious enough goal.” so said Nick Clegg recently. The welfare system needs to ensure that the ability to exit poverty exists, recipients of benefits can live a healthy life and that work pays. So many of our social ills can be overcome if reform is...
UK unemployment falls to 2.47m
UK unemployment fell 0.1% to 7.8% period up to May this year, according to he Office for National Statistics. Thus 2.47m people were out of work between March and May, 34,000 less than the previous quarter. This is encouraging, but does not reflect forthcoming cuts in the public sector....
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