‘Flexible working’ could mean many things. To employers such as the train-operating companies, it might mean unions which are prepared to change rigid rostering systems dating...
About Len Shackleton
Investor's Notebook
High executive pay is no excuse for state intervention
The High Pay Centre has just published its latest report on the remuneration of FTSE-100 CEOs. As usual, the report shows median pay which, by most people’s standards,...
The Fund Manager
The past, present and future of home working
Working at home is something many of us have got used to – maybe too used to – over the past year. In a strange way we are recapitulating the experience of our ancestors. For...
The Economist
Don’t rely on the minimum wage in the fight against poverty
The National Minimum Wage is 20 years old today. Despite the controversy surrounding its inception, it is now widely accepted across the political spectrum. As I...