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Fair Employment Enforcement Board to be established

There’s something comforting and old-fashioned about the name.

The establishment of the Board, together with the introduction of a single telephone helpline to report sharp practice by employers, has been announced in this BERR press release.

A summary of the new measures is given:

Establishing a Fair Employment Enforcement Board to drive continued progress towards effective collaboration between [...]

Mobile Madness

Road safety campaigners dream of giving mobile phone use and speeding the same stigma that attaches to drink driving. If someone were to boast that they routinely drank four pints* then drove home they would neither win friends nor influence people (except perhaps to shun them), yet it seems to be perfectly legitimate to villainise [...]

Timber!

This article is the stupidest thing I’ve ever read. Not the law – although it’s easy to have doubts when the National Trust are prosecuted for letting one of their six million trees fall down – it’s the terrible journalism. What this article really says is… send your employees go-karting and if one of them [...]