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Southport Wine Shops Sought for Top National Award!
SOUTHPORT
independent wine shops are being sought for a top national award.
The International Wine and Spirit Competition is seeking the very
best wine shops to be judged in a national competition for the
award; UK Wine Merchant 2008.
Said Grant Collier Deputy Director of the competition:- "The
International Wine and Spirit Competition is primarily about
identifying the best wines and spirits from around the world as an
easy guide for consumers, but we have also identified that there is
an ever increasing role for independent wine merchants to provide
quality advice and service to an increasingly sophisticated UK wine
consumer." He continued:- ‘We are looking for
nominations from Southport residents for independent wine shops not
just offering a good service but also a quality range of stock and
information available at point of purchase." Anyone wanting to nominate their local Wine shop should
email or
write to IWSC, Building 17 Dunsfold Park, Cranleigh GU6 8TB. In
addition All persons making nominations will be entered into a draw
to win a case of award winning wines.
WAGE FLOOR COULD BECOME
CEILING – WARNS UNISON
UNISON, the UK’s largest public
sector union, today warned that unless early years’ workers have
improved career opportunities the well-meaning “wage floors”
recommended by an IPPR* report would quickly become “wage
ceilings”. The report highlights the chronic low pay in
the sector and makes a number of recommendations for tackling it,
including introducing wage floors.
UNISON Head of Education, Christina McAnea said:- “Early care
workers are crucial to ensuring our children get the best start in
life. It is a disgrace that as a society we do not place enough
value on these staff to pay them a decent wage. UNISON would
welcome the introduction of a wage floor to protect these workers,
who are paid a shockingly low average wage of £6.08 per hour.
However, this needs to happen alongside improved opportunities for
career progression so that artificial wage ceilings are not created.
By linking pay to qualifications we run the risk of putting private
sector employers off training staff to keep costs low. What UNISON
want, and we’re sure that many parents would agree, are statutory
ratios of qualified staff to children, backed up by a system of
enforcement to stop corners being cut. We also need to
seriously consider if the current model for early years can deliver
the type of care we all want. Predominantly private sector childcare
is motivated by profit and ruled by margins. This will often be to
the detriment of pay and conditions for staff or standards of care
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JLA
spreads its wings & launches a new Training Centre
LIVERPOOL John
Lennon Airport recently celebrated the launch of a new onsite
Training and Development Centre. The new facility was officially
opened by Andy Gower, Airport Director at JLA, in a traditional
ribbon cutting ceremony.
The Centre, which is the 1st of its
kind for JLA, has the facilities to accommodate a wide range of
internal and external training courses and is based landside (before
security control) near to the Airport terminal making it easily
accessible to all airport and non-airport based companies. Previous
training took place airside (after security control), with minimal
courses on offer.
The number of courses now readily available has increased and varies
from Manual Handling, to Basic Fire Awareness, First Aid in the
Workplace and Flight and Cabin Crew Training. Two of JLA’s Training
Officers manage and conduct the training and are supported by fire
fighters from JLA’s Fire and Rescue Service.
Jason Stuart, Senior Training Officer at JLA, said:- "I'm
delighted with the opening of JLA's new Training and Development
Centre as we now have the right facility and environment to not only
train our own employees based on site but also external companies
from all over the region.
The facilities in the new centre enable us
to perform the specialist training such as Manual Handling, First
Aid at Work, Fire Safety training, and as of this month onwards a
Fork Lift truck training course will also be available.
There are
many more courses on offer and we are confident that they will
appeal to many more companies.
We have already had a great response
from companies within the Merseyside region which we are delighted
with.”
For more information on the courses available at JLA’s training and
development centre please call 0151 907 1564/1567 or
email Jason
Stuart or
email
Kenny Hudson.
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