What constitutes good leadership? Kouzes and Posner in ‘The Leadership Challenge’ identify five practices of exemplary leadership.
The best leaders:
• Model the way – act and behave according to their spoken values
• Inspire a shared vision – have a vision for the future and able to gain support
• Challenge the process – encourage innovation, learning and are unafraid of failure
• Enable others to act – foster collaboration, delegation and empowerment
You may have seen TV adverts. designed to alert employers to the requirement that from a date in November, as yet unannounced, the Government has said that any one wishing to bring foreign workers to the UK for employment must be licensed as an employer. The application process opened in February of this year but, as yet, few prospective employers have applied for licences.
Employment Tribunal decisions are now being reported in legal journals. While it is interesting to see how employment law is being applied at this level, these decisions cannot make Case Law (precedent) that can be quoted in deciding other cases.
However the ET decisions in Sheridan v Prospects and Hender v Prospects do lend support for the MDN Fusion advice that blanket GORs are risky and that each post should be separately assessed to see if a Genuine Occupational Requirement (GOR) is necessary
This continues its way through Parliament. The second reading in the Commons was just before the summer recess. The committee stage will conclude on 23rd October. The Bill will repeal the current statutory dismissal, discipline and grievance procedures, probably from a date in 2009. They will be replaced by a new ACAS Code and Guidelines, these can be viewed on the ACAS website.
In most negotiations, “give” and “take” results in compromise.
European deals on employment directives are no exception. It seems that for the UK to retain its “opt out” provisions in the Working Time Regulations it accepted extending the equal treatment provisions to protect temporary agency workers. Legislation will probably be enacted by the UK in the next session of Parliament and MDN Fusion will be watching for these developments.