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date: Wednesday 18 December 2002 embargo: 00:01 Thursday 19 December |
Attention: News, industrial and employment correspondents
Survive Christmas at work with the TUC workSMART guide
Employees can now find out how to avoid Christmas pitfalls at work by logging on to a new section of the TUC working life website, www.workSMART.org.uk
The workSMART guide to surviving Christmas at work contains the answers to common problems such as, what to do if their boss tells them to wrap up warm when they complain about the heating or fails to pay their Christmas bonus.
Other questions answered at www.workSMART.org.uk include:
- Can I accept Christmas gifts from suppliers?
- I’ve started a relationship with a colleague I met at our Christmas party. Will my employer have a problem with this?
- Is it illegal for me to drink at work?
- I’d like to take time off between Christmas and New Year, but my employer wants me to come in. Do I have to?
TUC General Secretary elect, Brendan Barber, said:
'Christmas should be a time of goodwill at work but this time of year brings its own problems. The TUC workSMART guide to surviving Christmas at work will help everyone get through the festive season.'
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Press release (300 words) issued 18 Dec 2002
