LATEST Categories All (28) Archive 2023 (1)2022 (3)2021 (2)2020 (6)2019 (5)2018 (5)2017 (6) Training Strikes Bill UK: Striking the Right Legal Balance Industrial actions over the past months have highlighted the difficulties for both organisations and individuals in the wake of the pandemic, energy and cost-of-living crisis. Read More > International Mediation Training Over the last couple of years, I’ve been privileged to deliver mediation skills training on a number of occasions for the ITCILO, writes Strathesk Re:solutions Founding Director, Malcolm Currie. Read More > Legal mediation: time to start talking! With court business still at a low ebb, there has never been a better time to consider mediation. Find out how online mediation works, where to access it and how you can try it out Read More > Looking Beyond Lockdown It’s the end of our first week in lockdown, so I thought I’d share my reflections on how I, and my business, are being affected. Read More > Taking a Long Look at Yourself… One of the disciplines that underpins mediation is the benefit that comes from reflecting on how a recent process has run. But it’s a habit that can have much wider benefits. Read More > Reflections from Tbilisi I spent the second week of April in Tbilisi, Georgia, delivering training on Conciliation of Collective Labour Disputes*. Read More > Bullying at work shouldn’t be hidden by ‘playground’ stigma This is Anti-Bullying Week 2018 (#ABW2018), with a series of events, articles and publications aimed at making the problem of bullying something about which we all know more and are better equipped to stop. Read More > Putting Mental Health in its Proper Workplace… Last Wednesday was World Mental Health Day 2018. The day aims to raise awareness of mental health and the issues around it, particularly those that arise from mental ILL-health. Read More > International Women’s Day – is it needed? Today is International Women’s Day, so I thought it was timely to reflect on perceptions of women’s place in UK society, and ask the question: International Women’s Day – is it needed? Read More > Shared Parental Leave, Another Push? The Government is running a campaign to encourage new parents to share their parental leave. Read More > SME Sickness Absence – Prevention or Cure, THAT is the Problem… Most of my blogs have been about topics in the news that I find interesting, or on which I’d like to provoke a little debate, but this time round I thought I’d take a slightly different approach and reach out to people who. Read More > Good Riddance to Employment Tribunal Fees Well, it’s been a long time coming, but the Cameron Government’s decision to charge fees for people to raise claims in the Employment Tribunal has finally been shown to be illegal. Read More > 1