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I was in a retail clothing store recently and observed the way that staff operated. It was part of a large chain of stores and the staff were smartly dressed, although rather disengaged. The store space was probably around 150

I have just made the long journey by road from Cologne in Germany to Albi in the south of France and reflected, on the way, about the trauma that  hit one generation and escaped the next. Looking out over Cologne

The jaunty nonsense of a sports programme greeted me last week as I climbed onto a London Heathrow shuttle bus after a thirteen hour flight from Shanghai. I was back to a rain-swept Britain and somehow could not taste my

Death in service may be an actuarial concept, but for employers the loss of a colleague in such a way is often a shock for which they are ill prepared.

Although life expectancies in Europe are rising, so is the

Just as we appear to be moving out of the worst ever post-war economic recession, out comes a report reminding us that the recession is likely to remain a reality for a huge swathe of the European Union’s (EU) population.

In a true democracy the courts are the primary guardians of rights and freedoms. Yet what happens when the courts ignore the laws that they have been established to uphold?

The highest court in the European Union is notorious for

According to the latest figures, 26.7 million men and women are unemployed in the European Union and GDP is making a sluggish recovery from a double dip recession. There seems little prospect for growth to be sufficient to significantly reduce

Most HR departments around the world have yet to embrace responsibility for policing corporate crime. This is in spite of G8 countries agreeing to an action plan to enhance transparency of corporate ownership and avoid the misuse of companies for

When was the last time you checked out your company policies and procedures to see if they are legally compliant? We estimate that over 20 million cases arise each year across the European Union where an employee has a legitimate

Companies are investing heavily in many developing nations of the world, but so much of their investment barely touches the majority of the population. In India 69% of the population continue to live on less than two dollars a day