Blog Posts: September 2010

I have previously put on my firm's ezine about how organisations within the public sector can maintain high morale in a difficult work environment. Within this context, I read with some dismay the latest leak dealing with projected Defence cuts with Secretary Liam Fox having  the prime minister that "draconian" spending cuts while the UK is at war would result in "grave consequences". In a private letter to David Cameron, leaked to the Daily Telegraph, he said....

As people planning the next stages in our firms' business development, we should be trying to anticipate what is going to happen next in the economy. One columnist that I do pay attention to is Ambrose Evans-Pritchard of the Telegraph. As he writes "We live in an amazing world. Everybody has big budget deficits and big easy money but somehow the world as a whole cannot fully employ itself,” said former Fed chair Paul Volcker in Chris Whalen’s new book Inflated: How M....

The CIPD has produced a good to dealing successfully with stress in the workplace. It contains legal analysis and can be downloaded here. Justin Patten, Solicitor....

In this era of austerity, it is reported by Panorma that more than 9,000 workers in the public sector earn more than David Cameron, who cut the prime minister's salary to £142,500 when he took office in May.As the Guardian reveal today, the survey, carried out by Panorama in conjunction with the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, is based on responses to more than 2,400 freedom of information requests submitted since February this year. The survey found: • The NHS has the highest num....

Some of the instructions which we are asked to deal with involve large organisations dealing with stressed employees who are not at work, or have erratic work hours. The advantages of mediation in this scenario is as follows: 1 Typically  there is a breakdown in the relationship and there is a lack of confidence between the parties. The mediator can enable the parties to understand precisely what is going on. 2 The employee is being unproductive; The mediator can help the employee c....