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A Test of Your Professionalism: Will You Pass?

The Office Professionals Place

Listen with empathy not sympathy and be assertive in your response. If you are not the person who can assist them, refer them to someone who can. Also, this is the perfect time to ask for some professional development training in the areas your supervisor has highlighted you may need improvement. Let them have their words.

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Curtail zero hour contracts and give workers guaranteed work hours, say researchers

Workplace Insight

Along with colleagues from the ReWAGE expert advisory group, academics at the Institute of Employment Research at the University of Warwick examined the legal and workplace practices associated with zero hour contracts, along with data covering flexibility, pay insecurity, workers ability to assert their rights and workers health and wellbeing.

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Time For Administrative Professionals To Stay Vigilant!

Office Dynamics

We have an established anti-harassment law with teeth in it, specific policies and guidelines in place, along with ongoing awareness training and, most importantly, swift consequences for poor behavior. We have safeguards in place today and they will not be revoked (not even by an executive order).