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MARKET COMMENTARY – JUNE 2008

  • Jun 1, 2008
  • Reading Time: 2 mins

IT'S a funny old world. Have you ever woken up in a sweat, having dreamt that you are still at school or university doing exams? Horrible. Spare a thought then for present day students of economics. It goes something like this…

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POLISH WORKERS – WHAT GOES AROUND

  • Jun 1, 2008
  • Reading Time: 2 mins

The United Kingdom saw an influx of something like 600,000 Polish workers when its borders were opened up to new EU citizens a couple of years ago. Press articles and news comment then flourished on the subject of British workers being denied jobs as they were “stolen” from under their noses by Polish nationals willing to work for less money.

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MARKET COMMENTARY – MAY 2008

  • May 1, 2008
  • Reading Time: 2 mins

Last week I had the privilege of being a speaker at one of the most interesting shipping conferences I have been to in a long while. “Corporate Social Responsibility – the Maritime Supply Chain of Responsibility” was the first ever shipping CSR conference…

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CSR OR PR?

  • May 1, 2008
  • Reading Time: 5 mins

Emerging business trends always attract the business academics and their definitions. Conference chair, ABS' Stewart Wade, ably steered the speakers and the audience towards the conclusion that corporate social responsibility is just that, “responsibility” and some bright spark boiled the subject down to 3Ps – Planet, Profit and People. So, avoiding all the formal definitions, here's a few of the quotes used at the conference:

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FLEXIBLE WORKING WORKS

  • May 1, 2008
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A NEW report has praised the benefits of flexible working, finding it improves an individual's performance and increases their loyalty.

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HOW TO USE APOSTROPHES (ARTICLE THREE)

  • May 1, 2008
  • Reading Time: 2 mins

HERE we go again, on our soapbox, but cringing as we go. (Is that how you spell “cringing”? Is it a real word? You see, paranoia takes over when you preach to others.) Last month's Changing Course was not a rod for our own back. No-one wrote to tell us about our own grammatical or spelling mistakes. Unfortunately, Sue at Stena Line spotted an errant “it's” in place of what would have been an unobtrusive “its”….

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AGENCY WORKERS – EMPLOYMENT STATUS DECISION

  • May 1, 2008
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Hilda worked for three years for a London council, which employed her through one agency then a second agency. She fell ill in 2004 and was absent from work. When she returned she found that her role had been filled by another worker from her agency…

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HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED

  • May 1, 2008
  • Reading Time: 1 mins

HOW TO get rid of those annoying lines across the page when typing a Word document? You know, the ones that appeared out of nowhere, or that you inserted by typing “—” and then hitting the “Enter” key but now won't go away. Well, we've just found out and it was such a wonderful moment, we thought we should share it with you….

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