Hard on the heels of the suggestion in my post on 24 August that dismissal for carelessness would only be fair if it related to matters of life or limb come two cases suggesting another justification – simple but overwhelming stupidity. These cases tread the difficult area between the underlying principles of fairness on the … Continue Reading
Here we go into the UK Festival Season, also known as “the Great Rains”. A long weekend in a field with several thousand others, the air full of burnt fat, off your head on junk food additives and up to your ankles in mud. Outside your tent it’s even worse. Is it any wonder that … Continue Reading
No doubt an enormous amount of reciprocal finger-pointing going on at recruitment group Hays at the moment following its inadvertently sending 800 people at the Royal Bank of Scotland the pay details of some 3,000 contractors and temps on the Bank’s books. As reported in financial services website hereisthecitynews.com this week, RBS is said with … Continue Reading
Some illuminating insights into the many and varied ways in which one can come unstuck at work appeared this week in an unattributed survey on transatlantic financial services industry website hereisthecitynews.com. The survey, jovially entitled “The thirteen most common reasons why employees get fired”, is more accurately a list of the most common forms of … Continue Reading
