I am trying to expand my recipe book and learn some new curry recipes. I have bookmarked my inspirations in my diigo feed, tagged recipe+curry. Some of the ingredients are not necessarily easy to find and so alternatives are needed. Here are my notes … Continue reading “More Curry”
On Unlawful Deduction of wages. As ever my notes and links. … Continue reading “Unlawful Deductions”
Not really, but I was asked the other day. Here are some notes. Continue reading “The Cold War, my part in it”
I am being asked about ‘non compete’ clauses in settlement agreement contracts. These are often overreaching but, if so, are they enforceable? Here are my notes … Continue reading “On non-compete agreements”
I need to sell my stamp collection, here are my notes. Continue reading “Philately”
The GMB’s annual congress, except when pandemics occur is defined by rule., Rule 8. It consists of one delegate per 1500 members and the delegates are appointed by the regions, 90% elected by the membership within Regions and 10% appointed by the Regional Committees, which are themselves indirectly elected bodies. This means that at the moment, Congress is about ~420 delegates.
I am surprised to learn of a minimum statutory notice period in employment law, defined by the Employment Rights Act 1996 §86; it’s one week/year subject to a 12 week cap, if you’ve worked for them for over two years. This may not be over-ridden by the contract of employment and will apply if the reason for termination/dismissal is redundancy. For more, press the “Read More” button. Continue reading “Guaranteed minimum notice”
The FCA have fucked up, in order to treat all customers fairly they have instructed that they don’t discriminate between agreed and non-agreed overdrafts. FFS! Guess what they’ve chosen to do 😫. Here are some notes and links. Continue reading “40% Overdrafts”
It is against the law to pay under the minimum wage, here are some notes on enforcement. … Continue reading “Low Pay”
The church next door is planning to redevelop on its land. It’s planned to be 6 stories. Here’s their project page and here’s Lewisham’s planning portal page. Below/Overleaf is a picture from their facebook page. Continue reading “Bear Church, Deptford”
I got myself a new office chair, I have been without for several months. I got a Millberget from Ikea; the price seems OK but delivery which of course has to be done at the moment is not cheap. I doubt they have reduced the price of deliveries to support us all during lockdown.
The instruction manual for its assembly is online at manuall.co.uk.
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Goodness me! When I started blogging I promised not to blog about cooking, although I think I have broken this promise once before. Here are my notes on buying & cooking potatoes. Continue reading “On Potatoes”
I like kedgeree and there are many ways to make it. Here are my notes. Continue reading “Kedgeree”
Some friends have shown me some cute Pay Pal tools, including how to dun someone and how to advertise a payment point. Here are my notes … Continue reading “Using Pay Pal”
To deal with the coronavirus crisis, the Govt. wants more powers and it wants them for a long time. I wonder why because they don’t seem to be making any decisions and they pretty much have the powers they need. They have a page on Gov.UK describing what they think they need, and Big Brother Watch have published their take on it. We should consider their failure to offer security to those in work who may lose their jobs, fall sick or have to stop work to look after children or elderly relatives. This will also highlight the appallingly low levels of statutory sick pay and redundancy payments, not to mention the 2 year employment longevity requirement for redundancy payments. No-one is talking about those living on savings who will be hurt by the reduction in the BoE interest rate to 0.1%, by the collapse in the stock market (the FTSE 250 is down by over 40% in the month), and even their business support programme is based on loans and not grants. Continue reading “First thoughts on coronavirus in the UK”