Lobbying Bill Update

Today the government will table significant amendments to their ill thought through Lobbying bill. ACEVO and key Commission members had a helpful meeting yesterday to be told of the concessions. Good. ACEVO resolved to help set up the Commission on Civil Society with more than a hundred civil society organisations because the charity sector works […]

Social Media – Friend or Foe?

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Elizabeth Judson, Employment Law Advisor at ACEVO Strategic Partners Ellis Whittam, discusses the importance of social media policies in the workplace: Did friends and family spend large parts of the festive period seemingly inseparable from their mobile telephones, iPads and the like?  Did you yourself keep a constant vigil as to what was going on […]

A Stitch in Time Saves Nine

Resolving Workplace Disputes Through Mediation In November 2011, the Coalition Government published a ground breaking set of proposals ‘Resolving Workplace Disputes’; the Government was making a clear and unambiguous step towards embedding mediation into every workplace across the UK, and since then, early intervention in workplace disputes through mediation has proved to be efficient and […]