In October, the Christian owners of a Northern Ireland bakery have won their appeal in the so-called “gay cake” discrimination case. The Supreme Court ruled that Ashers Bakery’s refusal to make a cake with a slogan supporting same-sex marriage was not discriminatory. The background to this high-profile dispute began in 2014 when the bakery refused …
According to research by the Risk Advisory Group, more than half of CVs submitted by job applicants contain lies or inaccuracies much like online review sites. These range from gaps in employment history to false claims regarding qualifications and failure to mention fraud committed against previous employers. One of the areas most fraught with difficulty …
Over the next decade, the changing age profile of the workforce will be the most significant development in the UK labour market, as a third of workers will be over 50 by 2020. It is anticipated that within 15 years, nearly a quarter of the UK population will be aged 65 or over. Against a …
Few aspects of the world of work have been subject to greater debate in recent months than that status of those working in the gig economy. Try to even find a definition for this term and you will be quickly plunged into the controversy which surrounds it. It is a term which describes a labour …
Since the introduction of the scheme in 2015, only 2% of eligible parents have taken up the opportunity to share their parental leave, according to figures from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. Organisations with 250 staff or more are being urged to publish their shared parental leave policies on their websites to …
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