As we welcome our new (temporary) office dog, brought in by two of our colleagues, we got to thinking about the positives and negatives around employment when you bring an animal into the equation. Other than the foot space that a dog takes up, an animal like...
It’s been an embarrassing week for the Church of England – following a letter from the house of bishops to all church members last week which stated that paying the living wage was a decent, Christian thing to do; it would seem that Archbishop Justin Welby and his...
There have been some fairly sensational stories in the news recently about staff getting fired for all sorts of strange reasons – however which of these really might constitute unfair dismissal claims? We’ve taken a look at some of the stranger stories that have...
Whilst many might just see Valentine’s Day as a card maker’s dream – no prizes for guessing where I stand – many see it as an opportunity to show the people they care about how they feel. Even if they’re a co-worker. But is this right? Should people be banned from...
The last weekend of January, the end of a dry January, the cold weather, perhaps even the Super bowl – it’s a perfect storm of ingredients that probably leads to today being ‘National Sickie Day’. A day when (a perhaps not so surprising) 69% of people surveyed by the...