Christine Quinn from Legal Island and Seamus McGranaghan from O'Reilly Stewart solicitors will be joined by Mark McAllister of the Labour Relations Agency and discuss:
1.Strikes, rising costs and union busting - you’d be forgiven for thinking we’ve jumped in a DeLorean and headed back to the 1980s when reading newspaper headlines at the minute – but it looks like we may be revving up for some serious strikes in the next few months. Seamus/Mark McAllister explains:
a.The current law on strikes including the similarities and differences between NI and England & Wales.
b.Why agency workers are currently banned from filling in for striking staff.
c.What changes the Westminster government are proposing.
2.According to the OECD, the UK now has the second highest childcare costs among leading economies. And a TUC poll of working parents with pre-school children – published in March of this year – revealed that one in three (32%) spend more than a third of their wages on childcare. With the summer holidays on the way parents, particularly mums, are in a catch-22 situation – they need childcare to work, but childcare is becoming prohibitively expensive.
So what other rights are available to them to help them ‘juggle’ during the holidays? Seamus takes us through the family-related rights open to workers and how to ensure your organisation is compliant.
Legal Island’s webinars and podcasts are sponsored by MCS Group, MCS help people find careers that match their skill sets perfectly, as well as supporting employers to build high performing businesses by connecting them with the most talented candidates in the market. If you are interested in finding out how MCS can help you, head to www.mcsgroup.jobs.
Christine Quinn from Legal Island and Seamus McGranaghan from O'Reilly Stewart solicitors will be joined by Mark McAllister of the Labour Relations Agency and discuss:
1.Strikes, rising costs and union busting - you’d be forgiven for thinking we’ve jumped in a DeLorean and headed back to the 1980s when reading newspaper headlines at the minute – but it looks like we may be revving up for some serious strikes in the next few months. Seamus/Mark McAllister explains:
a.The current law on strikes including the similarities and differences between NI and England & Wales.
b.Why agency workers are currently banned from filling in for striking staff.
c.What changes the Westminster government are proposing.
2.According to the OECD, the UK now has the second highest childcare costs among leading economies. And a TUC poll of working parents with pre-school children – published in March of this year – revealed that one in three (32%) spend more than a third of their wages on childcare. With the summer holidays on the way parents, particularly mums, are in a catch-22 situation – they need childcare to work, but childcare is becoming prohibitively expensive.
So what other rights are available to them to help them ‘juggle’ during the holidays? Seamus takes us through the family-related rights open to workers and how to ensure your organisation is compliant.
Legal Island’s webinars and podcasts are sponsored by MCS Group, MCS help people find careers that match their skill sets perfectly, as well as supporting employers to build high performing businesses by connecting them with the most talented candidates in the market. If you are interested in finding out how MCS can help you, head to www.mcsgroup.jobs.