August marks the anniversary of when I started blogging. Two years have zipped by since I put fingers to keyboard and, if I may, whilst on holiday and trying not to think about work, I’d like to take a look back and get all personal.
Employment Law Explained
Monthly Archives: August 2010
Please Sponsor Me!
Jobsworth in Training
Or, to be more accurate, please support Cancer Research, for whom I am running on the 9th October at Hatfield House in their 10k race. It’s a worthy cause and I’m hoping that I can achieve the modest target of £250 to support their research into this dreadful disease.
I ran the City 5k race back in July and thought I should build on that. I am hoping that the stimulus of raising money and publicising it via this blog and my Facebook page will keep me motivated during training: please help!
Old News Rehashed:Employers Warned to Monitor Social Media Usage at Work
A survey by a firm of recruitment consultants has shown that more than 50% of employees admit to using social media during working hours. More than 33% claim to spend more than 30 minutes per day on “the likes of” Facebook, MySpace and Twitter during working hours, costing the UK up to £14 billion in “lost productivity”. Click here for the report in Personnel Today.
Work ’til you drop
Dumbledore - final salary pension scheme?
The Government announced last week that the Default Retirement Age is to finally be abolished from next year. This means that by October 2011 it will no longer be lawful for employers to demand that their employees retire at 65. The previous government announced it was going to review the issue last year veryshortly before the final hearing in the Heyday saga (and did so probably to avoid losing the case and face).