Rest in Peace Ma’am

Rest in peace Your Majesty. An extraordinary Lady, someone with whom most of us have known all our lives and has been the heart of this country for over 70 years. Our country will feel your loss greatly. God Bless you Ma’am. As our second Elizabethan age ends we give...

Changes to Fit Notes

Please be aware there are proposed changes to the issuing of fit notes coming into force on 1st July 2022. You will recall the Government made some back-door changes with limited publicity at the latter part of 2021.  To ease GP pressures, they made an interim...

Covid-19: crisis response lessons from Asia-Pacific

In an article written by Ann Francke OBE, the CMI’s regional chairs in Asia explain how the pandemic response in their countries helped to mitigate the impact of Covid-19. “Singapore has had 60,000 cases of Covid-19 so far, with 29 deaths. In Hong Kong, there have...

Managing conflict in the workplace

The CIPD’s latest research on conflict found that just over a third (35%) of employees experienced some form of conflict over the past year, ranging from an isolated incident, sexual harassment/bullying to an ongoing difficult relationship. But much more widespread...