Monthly Archives: March 2009

Well, OK that was just a Daily Mail style headline designed to get a few cheap hits. I wouldn’t be surprised if a similar headline appears in the newspapers before the end of the day though. One of the groups … Continue reading →

Dress down angst has been a recurring theme on this blog but here’s a new twist on it from one worried banker: I feel that I have lost touch with society since I don’t even know what to wear to a … Continue reading →

Here’s something that made me laugh on my journey into town last week. I was following the Twitterings of John Band on my iPhone. Well you’ve got to do something when you can’t get a seat on the Tube. His comment … Continue reading →

Bankers and other City workers have, according to the Evening Standard, been told to dress down on 1 April to avoid being targeted by protesters on Financial Fools’ Day. Apparently, some companies are also telling employees to avoid the corporate dress-down uniform. It … Continue reading →

I’m going to be otherwise engaged for most of this week, so there won’t be much blogging going on. A story has been doing the rounds on US blogs about a woman who seems to have Twittered away a job with Cisco. After an … Continue reading →

Yesterday, I was looking at comparative levels of union membership in developed countries. I really do need to get out more. The two sets of figures from the OECD (follow the link on this blog) and the European Trade Union Institute … Continue reading →

Remember Alistair Darling’s plans to cut public sector back-office costs by 30 per cent? Well it seems it’s not happening quickly enough. Mr Darling’s sidekick, Yvette Cooper, has written to other ministers demanding cuts in finance, HR and IT functions. According … Continue reading →

Yesterday, I chaired an employment law briefing given by Darren Newman and Steve Gibbons. If you have never seen these two, take it from me, they are an excellent double act. Not only do they know their stuff, they can make … Continue reading →

Is there any trick the Personnel Today team won’t try? As if attempting to exploit child labour isn’t bad enough, they now hope to ride the wave of Apprentice-fever by setting up a blog to do a week-by-week, candidate-by-candidate analysis of the … Continue reading →

The BBC’s Robert Peston has a piece on his blog about how some banks which said they weren’t bailed out by state aid were, in effect, bailed out by state aid. The reason?  They had lent money to AIG. Had the … Continue reading →