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As the dust settles on the Budget announcement, Guru would like to applaud the chancellor's efforts to make life easier for small businesses. However, there is an elephant in the room - and it's in the shape of an unsightly dinosaur. Being small-minded, George Osborne quickly grasped the nettle that is the thorny problem of how to promote growth...

More absurdity from the US, where the Indianapolis Star reports that an employee with a severe allergy to paprika spent $10,000 on an assistance dog trained to alert her to its presence, only to find on her first day back at work that an asthmatic colleague was allergic to the not-so-cuddly canine. Emily Kysel began having a severe, life-threatening...

Employers will be under a duty from next year to provide time and amenities for employees to undertake compulsory exercise. A new European Directive is the latest move by politicians to tackle the obesity epidemic and is also intended to encourage teamwork and creativity. The directive, to be known as the Physical Exercise, Development and Leisure Read...

Guru was delighted to see that those pesky Jedis have hit the headlines again. A few months after Daniel Jones, the founder of the International Church of Jediism, accused Tesco of religious discrimination , one of his disciples, Chris Jarvis, raised the same issue after he was thrown out of his local Jobcentre in Southend for refusing to lower his...

A curious story that went somewhat under-reported this week. A community worker sacked for looking at porn in front of children has won his job back and a £23,000 payout after blaming his actions on diabetes. Alistair Dickson said he was not aware he had logged on to the porn site as he had a hypoglycemic episode when the children were being shown around...

Three contestants from the French reality TV show 'Temptation Island' have been awarded compensation after a court ruled they have the same entitlements to pay and benefits as employees. A judge decided that the taking part in the show, called l'Ile de la Tentation amounted to a job in terms of French labour laws, which stipulate that no...

Guru was abruptly woken at 11:30am this morning to be told of the care worker in North Wales who is entitled by law to be woken after six hours' sleep to take a rest break. Yours Truly drifted back off for a couple of hours then got up to write this blog. Even after three extra-strong coffees and two Danish pastries, however, he was unable to fully...