Employment Rights
The Medical Defence Union (MDU) has expressed concern that doctors will have insufficient time to read and digest the General Medical Council’s (GMC) more detailed guidance (MDG) which has been published today and comes into effect on January 30th 2024, alongside the updated version of its ethical standards Good Medical Practice. The MDGs, cover a… Read more »
Ofsted has called on the Government to take action on illegal schools. The call came in Ofsted’s latest annual report, published yesterday. The report also highlighted that religious education (RE) provision in English state schools is ‘not fit for purpose’, and that independent faith schools perform very badly in Ofsted inspections. Humanists UK, which has led the… Read more »
Latest articles
Details of pay levels in Britain’s local authorities reveal 14 town hall employees are earning more than the prime minister. In all 818 local authority workers are earning more than £100,000 and 132 earn more than the £137,579 earned by a Cabinet minister, according to the Taxpayers Alliance’s Town Hall Rich List. Fourteen are earning… Read more »
The government’s compensation scheme for coal miners suffering poor health cost more than £1 in administration for every £2 paid out, it has emerged. MPs reveal the findings in the public accounts committee’s report on the coal health compensation scheme, begun by the then-Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in 1998. Since courts ruled the… Read more »
