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Strikes: when companies collaborate with unions, industrial action can benefit business (2023)
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Lord, J. (in press). Strikes: when companies collaborate with unions, industrial action can benefit business

More than 4 million working days have been lost to industrial action in the UK in 2023. This is more than at any point since 1989 and around nine times more than the yearly average of 450,000 days in the 2010s.

This is level of activity is particu... Read More about Strikes: when companies collaborate with unions, industrial action can benefit business.

How can organisations cure a toxic workplace culture? (2023)
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Lord, J. (2023). How can organisations cure a toxic workplace culture?. [Website]

How businesses can help prevent male suicide (2023)
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Lord, J. (2023). How businesses can help prevent male suicide. [Website]

The ‘lazy girl job’ trend and why businesses don’t need to be afraid of it (2023)
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Lord, J. The ‘lazy girl job’ trend and why businesses don’t need to be afraid of it

The term ‘lazy girl job’ can be attributed to a Tik Tok influencer named Gabrielle Judge who defined it as a low stress, fully remote job with little oversight and a good salary offering financial freedom

How redundancies can be delivered in a fair and compassionate way (2023)
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Lord, J. How redundancies can be delivered in a fair and compassionate way

The economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the UK economy has been extremely damaging with organisations still grappling with high inflation and record cost of living

How mindfulness can develop better leaders and happier employees (2023)
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Lord, J. (in press). How mindfulness can develop better leaders and happier employees

Over the last 30 years, mindfulness has become more and more popular due to its ability of bringing a certain quality of attention to moment-by-moment experience

Why diversity programmes fail: how can businesses solve this problem through inclusivity? (2023)
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Lord, J. Why diversity programmes fail: how can businesses solve this problem through inclusivity?

Diversity is possibly one of the biggest priorities for businesses of the last six decades, alongside quality, leadership and ethics.

The impact social dialogue can have on the introduction of digitalisation within the European not-for-profit sector (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Lord, J. (2023, June). The impact social dialogue can have on the introduction of digitalisation within the European not-for-profit sector. Paper presented at Labour Law Research Network 6 - 2023 Conference, Warsaw, Poland

Social dialogue is defined by the ILO to include all types of negotiation, consultation or simply exchange of information between, or among, representatives of governments, employers and workers, on issues of common interest relating to economic and... Read More about The impact social dialogue can have on the introduction of digitalisation within the European not-for-profit sector.

What’s next for Employment Law in the UK? (2023)
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Lord, J. What’s next for Employment Law in the UK?

Despite the United Kingdom officially leaving the European Union on the 31 January 2020, there was a transition period that ended on 31 December 2020 whereby EU laws and regulations still applied in the UK

The Worker Protection Bill: what is it and will employers have to employ ‘banter bouncers’? (2023)
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Lord, J. The Worker Protection Bill: what is it and will employers have to employ ‘banter bouncers’?

Despite discrimination legislation being in place for over 50 years, harassment in the workplace still remains a prominent issue

Are returnships the answer to the current skills shortage? What are they and why are they popular? (2023)
Journal Article
Lord, J. (2023). Are returnships the answer to the current skills shortage? What are they and why are they popular?

Businesses have noticed a huge change in labour trends over the last couple of years with the ‘Great Resignation’ and Great Reshuffle.
Businesses have noticed a huge change in labour trends over the last couple of years with the ‘Great Resignation’... Read More about Are returnships the answer to the current skills shortage? What are they and why are they popular?.

How HR can survive the tribunal jungle (2023)
Journal Article
Lord, J. (2023). How HR can survive the tribunal jungle

Employment tribunals invoke trepidation throughout the HR profession due to the sometimes-unpredictable outcome of the judgment, where employers would often settle a case to bypass the costly nature and ambiguity of defending cases, even when the cla... Read More about How HR can survive the tribunal jungle.