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G20 protesters produce map of terror
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 planning protests for tomorrow and Thursday...
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31 Mar 2009 12:16 PM
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What’s the dress code for a riot?
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 riot anymore. I will just have to assume that...
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31 Mar 2009 11:19 AM
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The Tories may regret talking down the economy
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 on the bond auction...
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30 Mar 2009 12:01 PM
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Financial Fools’ Day
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...
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27 Mar 2009 6:46 AM
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Twitter away your job
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 interview with the company...
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24 Mar 2009 7:08 AM
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How powerful are French trade unions?
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 are slightly different...
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21 Mar 2009 7:46 AM
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Darling frustrated by lack of public sector cost cutting
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...
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20 Mar 2009 5:10 PM
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Will the Equality Act 2009 ever happen?
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 it entertaining too. They managed...
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20 Mar 2009 11:29 AM
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The Apprentice - it’s that time of year again
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...
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19 Mar 2009 7:42 AM
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AIG bailout ripples spread far and wide
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 US government not rescued the failing...
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18 Mar 2009 4:49 PM
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Investment banks and prostitutes
In a speech last night, Mervyn King discussed the separation of retail and investment banking; a British version of the American Glass-Steagall Act. A random thought occurred to me. Retail banks have customers, like most other businesses. Investment banks...
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18 Mar 2009 8:04 AM
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Reality bites equal pay
What a difference half-a-year makes. Only recently, the political consensus seemed to be that the government should take action over equal pay, where necessary compelling firms to carry out audits and make the necessary pay adjustments. If anything, the...
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17 Mar 2009 11:23 AM
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Sharon Shoesmith ups the stakes
Anyone who thought Sharon Shoesmith was going to go quietly was seriously mistaken. She is throwing everything she can at Haringey council and Ed Balls. As well as an unfair dismissal claim and a judicial review, she has added an allegation of sexual...
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16 Mar 2009 8:40 AM
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No foreign graduates for Bank of America
Could this be the start of a trend? Bank of America has withdrawn offers to foreign graduates of American business schools. According to the terms of the bank’s $45bn bailout, it is not allowed to recruit anyone requiring an immigrant work visa...
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13 Mar 2009 3:52 PM
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Sharon Shoesmith lodges her tribunal claim
I’ve been wondering when this would happen. Sharon Shoesmith’s ET1 has finally landed on the desk of her former boss at Haringey Council. As I said when she was sacked, I think she’s got a good chance of winning and nothing I’ve...
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9 Mar 2009 11:05 PM
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