It’s great to see mediation being explicitly promoted to London’s employers in a new scheme to improve people’s working lives in the Capital. Launched on 29 July 2019, the ‘Good Work Standard’ (GWS) is a joint initiative between the Mayor of London, leading employers, trades unions and professional bodies, notably the CIPD. It provides a […]

Conflict is often hailed as a creative force in human endeavour. Hollywood icon Bette Davis famously claimed she could predict the success of her films by the degree of on-set strife; the more conflict, the better they would turn out. By that rule of thumb she should have known pretty quickly during shooting of her […]