Now this is an interesting one and emphasises the importance of proper proof reading in job adverts. The Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospital recently placed a job advert on the UK’s National Health Service website. All seemed pretty normal with the advert and there was some fairly standard wording present in the job description [...]

Despite most economies around the world looking like they are coming out of the recession, it’s still a tough job market out there and there are challenges in getting the perfect job. Owen Hargreaves, the former Manchester United player has been plagued by injury during his career. He has played at the very top of [...]

If you visit the website of clothing retailer Next you will see some stunningly good-looking male and female models. Next is a very successful company. They are part of the FTSE 100 index which means they are one of the 100 largest quoted companies in the UK. Their latest annual results show revenues of nearly [...]

German insurance company Munich Re is the world’s largest re-insurer. It has just been revealed that a few years ago they undertook what can only be described as a fairly unusual (plus arguably immoral and unethical) approach to rewarding some of their top salesmen. Now whilst most successful salesmen would be happy with a traditional [...]

Ten years ago former accountant Mr. Christopher Timbrell became former accountant Mrs. Christine Timbrell. Christopher had surgery to alter his gender and became Christine but still remained married to his wife, Joy. Yesterday, three Appeal Court judges in the UK gave a ruling which links to a number of discrimination issues. Under 2004 legislation, as [...]