Well it is nearly the end of the week and time to enjoy the August Bank holiday. This is the last bank holiday until Christmas and I always wish there was one between now and the festive season. There have been discussions about this subject in the past. It is arguable that the moving nature of Easter means that there are almost too many bank holidays in April and May (especially when there is a Royal Wedding). (This has not however stopped people from campaigning for a further bank holiday to celebrate St George's Day)
I would like there to be a bank holiday in November. Why not have one around Bonfire Night and have fireworks to celebrate the occasion? Alternatively we could have one around Rememberance Day? There will be arguments against having a bank holiday around these dates. They could come from the Catholic population in the UK unhappy that Guy Fawkes' capture is being celebrated or from people of a pacifist persuasion who feel that having a day off at the time of Rembrance Day is a glorification of war.
Such arguments are not without validity so I would suggest a solution - we get the Queen (as bank holidays are declared by royal proclamation) to randomly choose a date from the period 15 October - 15 November out of a hat. This date would be the bank holiday (subject to it not being at weekends). That way we would get the bank holiday that most (because not everybody wants a bank holiday) people want and hopefully it will be an inoffensive way of choosing it (although anti-monachists may be against this method).
By the way let's still keep the Easter and May Bank Holidays!
Have a good weekend!
Friday 26 August 2011
Tour De TE
Some of my colleagues are doing the Tour de TE. This involves them cycling between all six of Thomas Eggar's offices. As I write they are just about to complete the tour. Please feel from to sponsor them using this link.
Wednesday 24 August 2011
Identity Theft resolved!
As you may be already aware from my previous blog entry a website had my law society listing next to a decision of the solicitors disciplinary tribunal relating to another Andrew Browning. Following an email to the website owner the link to my law society listing has been removed. Hopefully I will now only be mistaken for a George Michael impersonator!
Twitter Account
I am now on Twitter! My user name is @employerslaw and can be found by following this link: Employerslaw Twitter link
It will be a challenge to keep up everything up to date!
It will be a challenge to keep up everything up to date!
Friday 12 August 2011
Identity theft! (well nearly)
I decided to do a "vanity" google search on my name and the phrase "employment solicitor". I did very well my linkedin page came top of the non-sponsored links which was not a bad effort. My Thomas Eggar profile was also fairly high up.
There was however one small aberration in the results - another Andrew Browning went before the solicitors disciplinary tribunal (SDT) in 2009 and has been barred from working at any law firm in England and Wales. It appears that this Andrew Browning had been stealing money from his firm's client account which is a very naughty thing to do in the world of law firms.
This is not necessarily the result that you want to turn up when you input your name into google but I accept that the SDT findings have to be made public so that people can avoid the dodgy Andrew Brownings that are out there. I was however annoyed to find another website which had the SDT decision on a web page next to my name and a link to my entry on the law society website. This inferred that it was me who had been disciplined and I was still on the roll despite this disciplinary action being taken.
If the person who runs this website had carried out the briefest of checks he or she would have realised that me and this other Andrew Browning were not the same person. My namesake was not even a solicitor as he was actually employed as a clerk and this was clearly stated on the SDT decision which also stated that he had never been a solicitor.
There was however one small aberration in the results - another Andrew Browning went before the solicitors disciplinary tribunal (SDT) in 2009 and has been barred from working at any law firm in England and Wales. It appears that this Andrew Browning had been stealing money from his firm's client account which is a very naughty thing to do in the world of law firms.
This is not necessarily the result that you want to turn up when you input your name into google but I accept that the SDT findings have to be made public so that people can avoid the dodgy Andrew Brownings that are out there. I was however annoyed to find another website which had the SDT decision on a web page next to my name and a link to my entry on the law society website. This inferred that it was me who had been disciplined and I was still on the roll despite this disciplinary action being taken.
If the person who runs this website had carried out the briefest of checks he or she would have realised that me and this other Andrew Browning were not the same person. My namesake was not even a solicitor as he was actually employed as a clerk and this was clearly stated on the SDT decision which also stated that he had never been a solicitor.
I have contacted the website to ask for this link to be taken down and I am awaiting their response. In the mean time please rest assured I have not been before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal for any reason. I would also like to make clear that I am not a George Michael lookalike and impersonator which is what comes up as the first result if you key just Andrew Browning into the Google search engine.
Wednesday 10 August 2011
Writing Articles
I am currently trying to draft an article about the effect that the Olympics will have on employers. The article has to be 1000 words long. I think that I should be able to write the article but 1000 words is a lot and I have to try and make it interesting to the reader.
You get a lot of articles written by employment lawyers for various publications. Unfortunately it is the case that although we are very good at advising people on a one-to-one basis we are not always the best people to make an article interesting and engaging (as I think I am showing in this blog post).
Somehow I will have to try and "sex up" the article or at the very least make it interesting enough for somebody to read from start to finish. I will let you know how I get on and post a link to the article in due course....
Employment solicitor, human resources, thomas eggar, solicitor, andrew browning
You get a lot of articles written by employment lawyers for various publications. Unfortunately it is the case that although we are very good at advising people on a one-to-one basis we are not always the best people to make an article interesting and engaging (as I think I am showing in this blog post).
Somehow I will have to try and "sex up" the article or at the very least make it interesting enough for somebody to read from start to finish. I will let you know how I get on and post a link to the article in due course....
Employment solicitor, human resources, thomas eggar, solicitor, andrew browning
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