Recruitment manager Ricky Martin has won the latest BBC business contest, The Apprentice, securing £250,000 investment for his new business venture. Martin, from Portsmouth, beat Jade Nash, Nick Holzherr and Tom Gearing in the eighth series of the business reality show. Martin has an Honours degree in Biochemistry, and impressed Lord Sugar with plans for […]
Identifying the correct date of termination of an employment contract is crucial, and getting it wrong can be costly, as one employer recently discovered. An employee has three months from the EDT to present a claim to an employment tribunal So, it is extremely important for both parties to be crystal clear as to […]
As you may have already noticed, more than 6.4 million LinkedIn passwords have leaked to the Web after an apparent hack. Some login details are encrypted, but all users are advised to change their passwords. LinkedIn has more than 150 million users worldwide, so this appears to affect less than 5 percent of its user […]
