Are nominal wage changes skewed away from wage cuts?

Wages

Risk and resilience in the Scottish social housing sector: ‘We’re all risk managers’

Social housing providers confront an array of risks strategically and operationally. Recently, models of hybrid organisations have been developed to understand how non-profit landlords are changing in response to market and other external pressures. In this paper, we draw on a multidisciplinary conceptual framework of external and internal risks, multiple stakeholders and resilience strategies, as well as the notion of hybridity, in order to make sense of change in Scotland's social housing sector. The paper draws on elite interviews as well as case studies that seek to capture the range of approaches adopted by providers. Although providers handle and respond to risk in a variety of ways, risk management is a necessary part of the management of social housing businesses. Increasingly, providers are concerned with questions of resilience – the need to make themselves as organisations more resilient and also to promote greater resilience amongst tenants as a way of mitigating risk. Our research suggests that this is leading to some positive outcomes e.g. greater diversity within the sector and increased customer focus but there is concern that government policies remain within silos and are insufficiently flexible to deal with changed circumstances and the evolving needs and aspirations of the sector

State v. Smith, 401 So. 2d 1126 (Fla. 5th Dist. Ct. App. 1981)

Criminal Law-SEXUAL BATTERY-NO INTERSPOUSAL EXCEPTION FROM PROSECUTION UNDER FLORIDA SEXUAL BATTERY STATUT

Dept. of Transportation v. Neilson, 419 So. 2d 1071 (Fla. 1982); Ingham v. Dept. of Transp., 419 So. 2d 1081 (Fla. 1982); City of St. Petersburg v. Collom, 419 So. 2d 1082 (Fla. 1982)

Torts-SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY TRILOGY:-COMMERCIAL CARRIER REVISITED BUT NOT REFINE

How Should We Decide Which Ones Are the Right Ones to Let In?

This paper will identify and discuss the constraints and issues that surround the selection process at a Scottish University for the PGDE Primary and Secondary programmes. The aim of the research is to contest the recommendation that the selection process to Initial Teacher Education should be more rigorous (Donaldson, 2011). Initially by identifying a range of education and business recruitment literature that provides insight into various aspects of a selection process (Beardwell et al., 2004; Davies et al., 2016). The methods employed are to look at describing mechanisms to measure and evaluate the section instruments in relation to a recent cohort of applicants. In light of changes to the selection process (from three selection instruments to one), it will analyse key pieces of quantitative data gathered from the selection process in relation to applicant’s success or withdrawal. It will also gather qualitative data via questionnaires and structured interviews with applicants and recruitment staff to gauge their perception in relation to the selection methods. The paper will present findings which will critique the current expectation that all applicants to teaching in Scotland must be interviewed (GTCS, 2013) and provide evidence that will allow for a more efficient and effective recruitment and selection process. Ultimately it will lead to recommendations that are evidence based in relation to the selection and recruitment process for the PGDE programme. This paper will be of relevance to those who have an interest in teacher selection and recruitment in relation to the PGDE pathway