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IS IT REDUNDANCY?

Jun 1, 2008
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THE Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has confirmed that where an employer terminates the contracts of its employees and subsequently offers them new contracts on different terms, the dismissals are not redundancy dismissals. (Martland and others v Co-operative Insurance Society Ltd.)

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JOB APPLICATIONS: IMPROVE YOUR CHANCES!

Jun 1, 2008
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WHY are you the right person for that job? Is it obvious? Or is it only obvious to you? There are people out there who apply for virtually every job we handle and never get an interview. There are others who have only ever applied for one and got it.

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WHAT USE ARE TRAINEE LAWYERS?

Jun 1, 2008
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Four legal secretaries are on the tube on a Monday morning. One asks the other three if they pulled at the weekend. The first one said, 'Oh yes, I pulled a partner, he was amazing, extremely confident, knew what he was doing but on the downside, he seemed to think 6 minutes lasted an hour.' ….

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MARKET COMMENTARY – JUNE 2008

Jun 1, 2008
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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
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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
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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
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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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