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How will junior doctors‘ resistance to a new contract will affect HR in the NHS? Last month major doctors’ union the British Medical Association (BMA) called off a 48-hour walkout, planned for 26 January, by NHS junior doctors in England. It would have been the second of three strikes planned during January and February after… Continue reading →

Getting out of bed is never particularly easy, especially in these colder months. You may often find that you have to drag, bully or even bribe yourself out of bed in the morning ahead of commuting into work. Here’s our list of 10 ways that you can make getting out of bed in the morning… Continue reading →

There is little clarity on whether employers should pay staff the national minimum wage for overnight shifts and decisions tend to be highly case specific. Chloe Ricciardi and Stephen Jefferson consider recent case law. The question of whether employees should be paid the national minimum wage (NMW) for “sleep-ins” has caused difficulty in recent years.… Continue reading →

A boss has sacked an employee after she called in sick after having suffered a miscarriage. Amy Larman, who worked at a pub in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, sent her boss, Adam Groves, a text message saying she would be unable to attend her shift following a miscarriage. Larman said she had informed Groves of… Continue reading →

Balfour Beatty admits liability and regrets ‘’failing to support employee’ Balfour Beatty has paid £137,000 to a whistleblower who claimed he was “bullied” out of his job. Nigel McArthur, formally a pre-construction manager for the firm in Exmouth, said managers at the company hounded him after he raised concerns about the true cost of an… Continue reading →