Weekly news roundup (3rd December 2010)
Welcome to the first of a new series of weekly employment news roundups. Each week, this series will aim to present a quick roundup of employment-related news. So without further ado, here’s what’s interesting in the world of employment for the week ending Friday December 03rd 2010.
Following a week of snow throughout much of the UK; Directgov, posted an article relating to snow and your associated employment rights. This covers issues such as, flexible working agreements and paid / unpaid leave.
On Friday, the Independent reported that the Government has scrapped plans to force large organisations to disclose differences in pay for woman and men – originally planned by Labour and penned-in for 2013.
In the US, the jobs market unexpectedly rose to 8.9pc – significantly dampening economic optimism. Richard Blackden from The Telegraph reports on this in more detail.
An excellent article on The Guardian on Thursday with a Q&A on how to prepare for redundancy in local government. With budget cuts sweeping local government, this article provides advice to best position readers for the worst.
As we’ve advised in a previous article; social networking can be dangerous when it comes to jobs…so much so that a bank worker lost redundancy of £6,000 after bragging about it on Facebook – instead, she got sacked. Read more here.
