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What charities should know about zero-hour contracts 1

8 May 2013 | Jonathan Bruck

Tags: Human resources | Spending Cuts and Recession

In straitened times, finding ways to cut staff costs can be all too tempting. But while zero-hour contracts offer some benefit to charities, they don't come without their risks, warns Jonathan Bruck.

What charities should know about zero-hour contracts

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HMRC is not targeting the right people in charity fraud 3

Kate Sayer
7 May 2013

Tags: Fraud

Last week Cathy Wilson, policy adviser to HMRC, addressed delegates at the Charity Tax Group conference highlighting the scale of the UK’s charity fraud and tax-avoidance problem, describing it as an ‘industry’ of its own. Kate Sayer reflects.

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The life of a charity adviser

David Philpott
2 May 2013

Tags: Human resources

David Philpott outlines his typical week as a charity consultant.

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I have a question…don't laugh

Niki May Young
23 May 2013

Niki May Young ponders the importance of being able to ask the silly questions.

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Pointless ministers?

Ian Allsop
9 May 2013

Ian Allsop muses on the unattractive political career prospects of a charities minister.

Flexible working rests on the buy-in of the workforce and mutual benefit of the arrangements. There is no mutual benefit for employees in zero-hours. It is a wholly one-sided arrangement. I have yet to meet a single third sector employee who wants zero-hours.

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When ignorance is far from bliss 2

Robert Ashton
20 May 2013

A shifting political atmosphere is putting power in the hands of the inexperienced, warns Robert Ashton.

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Tablets: the end of an era?

John Tate
9 May 2013

Tags: Mobile technology | Cloud computing

John Tate asks whether the inexorable rise of the tablet will spell the end for the humble PC.

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We are all public benefit entities now

Rui Domingues
2 May 2013

Tags: Audit and accountancy

Rui Domingues celebrates the publication of FRS 102, and looks forward to the shaping of the new Sorp.

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