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Hefty fine for Amazon has implications for employee surveillance policy

Workplace Insight

The regulator was particularly concerned with employee surveillance practices that it deemed to be at odds with workers’ rights in relation to health and safety, as well as regarding the protection of their personal and private lives.

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Sick pay reform should encourage people back into work, government claims

Workplace Insight

A parliamentary committee of MPs has called for a ‘long-overdue’ boost to statutory sick pay (SSP), emphasising the need to strike a delicate balance between workers’ wellbeing and employers’ financial constraints. The cross-party committee contends that all workers, regardless of income, should be eligible for SSP.

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Members of European Parliament back charter to ‘revolutionise workplace wellbeing’

Workplace Insight

Pîslaru, Chair of the European Parliament Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. Under the Charter, MEPs are calling to modernise Europe’s policy approach to workplace wellbeing by focusing on solutions across four themes: (1) life beyond work, (2) social connection, (3) privacy and trust, and (4) digital wellness.

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New study will explore the impact of economic turmoil on workplace experience

Workplace Insight

The Skills and Employment Survey 2023 (SES2023), which also involves researchers at UCL, the Universities of Oxford and Surrey and the National Centre for Social Research, will help academics assess the impact of an extraordinary period of turbulence for workers which includes the economic downturn, Cost-of-Living Crisis, Covid-19 and Brexit.

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Overqualified and Interviewing

Office Dynamics

Returning after a career gap due to health, caregiving, education, etc. Seeking better benefits; health, retirement, education assistance or flexible schedule. I needed health insurance and retirement opportunities and wanted to stay within the industry I had most of my career experience in. Changing career field.

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SUCCESS’ 2024 Women of Influence

Success

When she was a junior in high school, Arrington founded the nonprofit ScholarCHIPS, an organization that provides college scholarships, mentoring, mental health support and a peer support network to children of incarcerated parents. Bathurst Walk-in Clinic and Family Practice Atwal is a trailblazer in the health care industry.

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Guest Blogger: David B. Wright, Author

The Office Professionals Place

Can you bring in new business, improve operating efficiency, reduce costs, help build the strategy that will form the company’s future? In it, you can highlight key accomplishments, high-profile clients or projects, significant results, pretty much anything you like that would help you stand out to the hiring committee.