Blog Posts: March 2009

7 tips for managing disputes with employees My firm provides free monthly ezines which anyone can subscribe to. Here is our latest offering: As the economy weakens, business pressures increase, short-time working and redundancies are on every one’s mind the day-to-day pressures for managers are increased. What might have been an insignificant internal disagreement between colleagues can suddenly escalate and without careful management minor employee spats can suddenly turn into time-....

It is all go in  the age discrimination arena and the issue is going to run and run. As the Law Society Gazette reports "the first tribunal hearing to deal ‘head on’ with bars to employment based on date of birth has ruled that the National Air Traffic Service (NATS) acted unlawfully in rejecting candidates over 35. This follows the Heyday case which has been all over the press recently and shows that the issue of age discrimination has a while to run just yet with the ECJ....

A post over on an Irish website which conveys the impact of the recession on the thinking of businesses to dispute resolution. "Attempts to resolve commercial disputes by mediation will double over the next year, as businesses seek a cheaper and faster alternative to litigation, according to a new survey. The Irish Commercial Mediation Association (ICMA) issued a questionnaire to the managing partners of more than 3,500 law, accountancy and other professional firms to ascertain attitudes t....

One of the best economic columnists writes for the Telegraph, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard. His latest lucid piece highlights the global and relatively early nature of the recession.    As he writes. "Factory output is collapsing at the fastest pace everywhere. The figures for the most recent month available are, year-on-year: Taiwan (-43pc), Ukraine (-34pc), Japan (-30pc), Singapore (-29pc), Hungary (-23pc), Sweden (-20pc), Korea (-19pc), Turkey (-18pc), Russia (-16pc), Spa....