30 Sep, 2024 Rising whistleblowing in charities - what this means and how to respond? By Anna Dabek Today's article in the Civil Society highlights the Charity Commission’s latest report showing a significant rise in whistleblowing...
18 Jul, 2024 The King’s speech – High on pomp but low on HR practicalities By Anna Dabek Yesterday's King’s Speech came after an election where big promises were made and an even bigger majority won. The State Opening of...
23 May, 2024 General Election – what’s ahead for HR? By Anna Dabek With the Prime Minister’s announcement yesterday of a 4 July election, the starting gun has been fired and the race is on. But this...
12 Feb, 2024 Labour announces plans to extend equal pay rights By Michael Brownlee The Labour Party has announced that, should they win the next election, they would extend the specific equal pay rights, currently...
08 Feb, 2024 Consultation on mandatory qualifications for housing managers released – it’s finally here but what do we learn? By Katherine Sinclair In February 2023 Michael Gove announced that mandatory qualifications would be introduced for senior social housing managers and...
06 Dec, 2023 Whatever I said, whatever I did, I didn’t mean it… By Michael Brownlee We’ve all said things we didn’t mean, at times. However, when it comes to words that could be construed as a ‘resignation’, this could...
10 Jul, 2023 ‘If not you, then who?’ The role of the HR function in ESG performance By Katherine Sinclair I wrote a blog published in Social Housing Magazine on Friday that includes some reflections arising from an interview that I did during...
07 Jun, 2023 Predictable can be good – especially if you are a zero-hour worker By Anna Dabek The vulnerability of zero-hours (and agency) workers is an issue that can serve as a proverbial dog whistle to parties on either side of...
03 Jan, 2023 2022 – The year when decades happened By Anna Dabek Happy New Year from the employment and pensions team here at ACS! We saw out 2022 with the publication of our winter newsletter, looking...
05 Dec, 2022 The return of the work Christmas party By Anthony Collins 'Twas the party for Christmas and all through the night, HR was panicking.... please all behave right'. Love 'em or loathe 'em, work...
02 Aug, 2021 Employee ownership: A must for ethical employers? By Anthony Collins The strive to be a good employer has never been more important than over the last 12 months. The Covid-19 pandemic has placed corporate...
21 Jul, 2021 State of the Nation: Social mobility in a post-pandemic world By Anthony Collins The Social Mobility Commission published its latest State of the Nation policy paper yesterday. The paper looks back at life in the...