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The importance of recharging
This isn’t about not forgetting to do your business expenses, it’s about timeout. I’ve just returned from a lovely week away in Cornwall. We ate too many pasties and cream teas, we drank gin and gallons of tea, we cycled and walked the pointy coastline. And, all of this with fabulous sunshine – it was […]
Slave Labour
Apparently the Public Relations industry is one of the worst offenders for employing unpaid workers, despite the existence of the PRCA’s Intern Programme, which commits members to paying interns working for longer than a month at least the national minimum wage. A PR Week article in April stated that ten per cent of the 100 […]
PR Week reports that APPC, CIPR and PRCA act on lobbying register
PR Week today reports that these three industry bodies have sent a joint definition of ‘professional lobbying’ to the government minister overseeing plans to legislate for a statutory lobbying register. http://bit.ly/Wc7Jwx
Once the horse has bolted…….
I have finally read through last week’s copy of PR Week and an article about the horse meat scandal caught my eye. The article reviews how Findus UK’s response to the crisis has been lambasted as ‘not fit for purpose’, describing the company as ‘a rabbit in the headlights’. One commentator said that the company […]
