Blog Posts: December 2010

The Guardian reports today that 100,000 public sector workers face the prospect of losing jobs by spring with a series of warning letters of redundancy to be issued by the end of the year. This is bound to lead to some form of litigation which will hurt the taxpayer, the employer and the employee. The question can this pain be mitigated, and is it worthwhile? It must be worthwhile on financial terms if the result of the redundancy is litigation is a Tribunal Claim, a Tribunal claim which may ....

Public sector organisations around the world face unprecedented pressure to improve service quality while progressively lowering their costs. At the same time, they are expected to become more accountable, customer focused and responsive to stakeholder needs. In the UK the new coalition Government has embarked on an unprecedented public sector funding cull which is already resulting in wide scale change programmes, job losses, fear and anger amongst public sector workers. Let’s not underes....