by Amy Martin | Mar 16, 2023 | General News
More women are now working until later in life. The ONS survey from 2015 suggested that 4.3 million women aged 50 or over were in employment. Since then the number or women in employment over 50 has increased due to an increase in female state pension age and the...
by Amy Martin | Feb 22, 2023 | General News
This might shock you, but in the UK there were 30 million working days lost to work-related ill health between 2021 and 2022. The primary cause? *Stress*Depression*Anxiety And the cost of new cases of ill health in the workforce was £11.2 billion in 2019-2020. That’s...
by Amy Martin | Feb 16, 2023 | Employment updates, General News
There is no place for bullying in today’s society. Not only is it incredibly harmful to the victim on so many levels, but there can also be awful repercussions for your business too, as it… Puts your responsibility to provide a safe and healthy working environment...
by Amy Martin | Feb 15, 2023 | Employment updates, General News
A sales director felt pressured to leave his job because his boss didn’t want “a team of bald-headed 50-year-old men,” a tribunal has heard. Mark Jones, 61, was awarded £71,000 in damages at an employment appeal, after alleging that his former employer, Leeds-based...
by Amy Martin | Feb 15, 2023 | General News
You’ve likely heard of whistleblowing. There have been more publicised cases in recent years. But do you know what it is, and how you can protect your business? Whistleblowing is where a worker discloses business information that they believe to be in the public...
by Amy Martin | Feb 10, 2023 | General News
When you’re running a business, you need to have a close team of people that you trust implicitlyto make sure things are being done the right way. Sure, things go wrong every now and then. That’s the nature of the beast. But if your teams havebecome unmotivated and...
