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Usefully Employed is back

This website (and, for many of you, the email newsletter) had a rather long break in the last part of 2009. Well, Usefully Employed is now back and fighting fit.

As well as resuming news and commentary on the latest employment law developments, anything missed during the down time will be gradually added in. These will [...]

Pink Tape hosts Blawg Review #226

For those of you who haven’t cast their net too wide into the online world of law resources, be aware of the regular Blawg Reviews, in which guest editors present a round-up of all that’s new on law blogs around the globe. In these days when Lexis and Westlaw push their bills ever higher, everyone [...]

Usefully Employed translated

For accessibility, certain parts of this website can now be read in lolcat.

Daniel Barnett reaches milestone

Part of the lack of updates to this blog recently means I’m late reporting on a true employment law internet luminary reaching a real milestone. Daniel Barnett, barrister at 1 Temple Gardens, has been sending email employment law bulletins to just about everyone in the industry, from barristers to CIPD students, for ten years. And [...]

Imminent redesign of Usefully Employed

Following a period of shameful inactivity there will, by the end of this week, be a redesign of Usefully Employed – not necessarily aesthetic, but centred around content. Note that service may therefore be intermittent during this time.

What would you like to see on an employment law website like this one? Clearly there’s a limit to [...]

Brief break in transmission

I shall be camping and surfing in North Devon until early next week, so no posts are likely. Hope you all enjoy your bank holidays.

stealthemployed – lazy profiteering

**EDIT: AS AT 6TH AUGUST MY CONTENT WAS TAKEN DOWN FROM THE SITE**

If you’re reading this post at stealthemployed.com, which is a blog that simply reposts all of my stuff under a few big lucrative banner ads, then please visit the genuine site at http://blog.usefullyemployed.co.uk. That way you know that the guy that does the [...]

New hosting, new look

In my quest for continual self-improvement I’ve now moved this site onto its own server. What does this mean? Well, hopefully it’ll let me make this site what I want it to be – and you’ll see some exciting new changes in the coming weeks.

If you subscribe to this blog please make sure your reader [...]

Tweet

Twitter is the social networking phenomenon de jour. I’m on there, see:

http://twitter.com/u_employed

Now I’ve joined and mentioned it to people, I see with a groan that it puts up stats as to how many ‘followers’ I have. Cue months of embarassment caused by lack of friends.

Usefully (Self)-Employed

I have now started pupillage. It’s early days, but it seems as though it was the right decision.

In deference to the quality blogs and other sites out there that talk about pupillage, and (I admit) because it makes me a little nervous, I shan’t be blogging about what it’s like. In tribute to the good [...]