Author Archives: John Charlton
Rights for pagans – wickermania?
I trust that pagan plods are forced to take leave for paganism out of their annual allocations and are willing to fight crime and harass motorists on traditional holidays.
Sir Clive Sinclair – beauty and the geek
It was in the mid-1980s that my then editor told me to call Clive to ask about a liaison with a brainy young beauty whose name escapes me. It was a call I didn’t want to make but nevertheless did.
Let’s not get positive say UK employers
Don’t UK bosses realise that the more diverse their boardrooms are the more successful their businesses will be? It follows like evening follows morning.
Little joy for HR in manifestos – what did they expect?
Any HR directors who thought that employment law would be simplified and or rolled back is clearly bonkers.
Working Time Directive is out of time
The reality is that tougher trading and employment conditions have put flexible working in a much more favourable light.
Glittering prizes elude many grads while debt entraps them
Tony Blair’s promise of opening up higher education for all and sundry has predictably brought misery for many of those blinded by it. More than 400,000 graduates entered the jobs … Continue reading
Ping pong drives up legal costs
In a Court of Appeal ruling on the case of an academic constructively dismissed after his marking was called into question, Lord Justice Jacob criticised the habit of “Ping pong”: … Continue reading
Is HR up to driving the recovery?
Could HR have to move out of its comfort zone if it’s to make more of itself than a purely admin function? This, frankly age-old question, is at the heart … Continue reading
Council executives’ pay – publish and be bashed?
why did the Government think £50,000 a year is big money? It’s but a fraction of what ex England soccer ball team captain John Terry pays his strumpets to keep schtum and would barely pay the mortgage on a bolt hole in a half-decent area.
