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Calling in sick

Employment Tribunal judge might as well have invited workers to ‘go sick and send bosses your beer tab’

13 June 2021 Opinion Charlie Mullins 0 Comments

The case of the workshy driver who won an employment tribunal despite being spotted at a bar after phoning in sick is a fine example of why the pendulum of power has swung too far towards employees.

Furlough

The Chancellor is prolonging the agony by extending the furlough yet again

3 March 2021 Opinion Charlie Mullins 0 Comments

It’s strange to think that someone who has worked as an investment banker and is now the Chancellor under a Tory Government would turn out to be such a softy.

Charlie Mullins

Uber drivers and plumbers are not the same, whatever the Supreme Court says

19 February 2021 Opinion Charlie Mullins 0 Comments

After today’s Supreme Court ruling that Uber drivers should be classed as workers and not self-employed the inevitable comparisons with our old case have already started.

Rishi Sunak

As furlough ends employers have a duty to be honest with their workers

17 September 2020 Columns, Opinion Charlie Mullins 69 Comments

Rishi Sunak’s desperate pleading with company bosses not to lay off their furloughed employees once the scheme ends next month will cut no ice with those who must balance the books in the real world of business. 

Unpaid shifts are exploitative & fundamentally wrong!

15 March 201815 March 2018 Columns, Opinion Charlie Mullins 0 Comments

The workplace is meant to be a place where people learn, a pathway to bettering themselves you could say; So someone please tell me why companies have the audacity to exploit our young people with ‘unpaid shifts’.

UK Supreme Court

Pimlico Plumbers’ employment status case heading for the Supreme Court

8 August 2017 Opinion Charlie Mullins 0 Comments

I’ve received the most wonderful news that my company, Pimlico Plumbers, has been granted permission to appeal our long-running and potentially ground-breaking employment case to the Supreme Court.

deliveroo

Work is a power for good, so bust myth that ‘gig economy’ is evil

10 May 201727 May 2017 Opinion Charlie Mullins 0 Comments

I’m getting extremely annoyed about the way people are using the phrase ‘gig economy’. Not only is it being portrayed as something new, but also the implication is that anyone involved in paying people on a ‘job done’ basis is some kind of abusive employer, running an exploitative business model.

I don’t recognise Maternity Leave issue, but do recognise motives behind survey!

8 August 2013 Columns, Opinion Charlie Mullins 2 Comments

What can I say about the headlines this morning that scream that mothers ‘feel discriminated against at work’? Except that it’s not a situation that I recognise at all.

Don’t let shoddy imitations devalue real apprenticeships

27 November 2012 Columns, Opinion Charlie Mullins 6 Comments

Doug Richard’s long-awaited report into apprenticeships could have been written by me, or I suspect any other employer who truly understands the benefits to businesses, individuals and the economy of quality workplace training.

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