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2nd July 2009: It's hot, and some government lobbying
It's another fantastic and hot day here at Gabem, and due to the week's heat we've been allowed to dress down. This may not seem a big deal for a lot of you but for us office bound workers it's a minor luxury.
Susan is writing her monthly legal bits and I am assured that it will be with us by the end of the week, and it looks like it will be a good one (at least I think so), so you have that to look forward to.
We had an email from one of our umbrella employees asking if we could lobby the government on behalf our contractors, it's a great idea and one we're eager to start, but rather than keep it in house we're going to try to open it up to all uk contractors, it's not really any extra work for us and if you're going to try to do something like this you may as well try to help as many people as possible.
Currently any lobbying we do is through KPMG because of the weight their name carries, and that isn't going to stop, but we will be campaigning on our own behalf as well. This is all in the planning stage at the moment, we have to figure out a way to get people to register their interest, but this is a priority, so hopefully you will see something here in the near future.
As an aside if you are interested just email Hugo below, and once things are on track we'll email you (no spam I promise).
Hugo
02/07/2009
