East Midlands

On Thursday 15th June, EMC held the 50th session of the Low Cost CPD for Environmental Health Officers 5+1 on Food Safety.  Barrie Sheard, a retired Environmental Health Officer from Amber Valley Borough Council, also attended and was presented with his 60 year membership of the CIEH.    

NEWS Release from Transport for the East Midlands (TfEM) Leicester City Mayor Sir Peter Soulsby has been confirmed the first chair of ‘Transport for the East Midlands’ (TfEM). Cllr Richard Davies from Lincolnshire County Council is the Vice Chair. TfEM brings together senior leaders from the region’s local...

East Midlands Councils has produced a summary of the General Election Results in the East Midlands, available here.   The changes in the region are included below; Derby North - Labour Gain from Conservative Derbyshire North East - Conservative Gain from Labour High Peak - Labour Gain from Conservative Lincoln - Labour Gain...

EMC HR Bulletin May 2017 The May EMC HR Bulletin is now available from the above link below. Rest is the theme of Darren Newman’s article this month, in which he sets out latest developments on sleeping in shifts and how they relate to the National Minimum Wage. The HR Bulletin also provides news of an upcoming Mediation course...

East Midlands Councils (EMC) supports strategic infrastructure and economic growth across the region through its input to initiatives and programmes such as Midlands Connect, HS2 and its emerging growth strategy, rail franchising and the upgrade and electrification of the Midland Mainline. Transport for the East Midlands (TFEM) brings the nine...

Midlands Connect – Multiple appointments – Fixed term until 31 March 2020 Secondment opportunities welcome Midlands Connect is a pan-Midlands partnership of 23 Local Authorities, nine Local Enterprise Partnerships, the Chambers of Commerce, Highways England, HS2 Ltd, Network Rail and our Sponsor the Department for Transport....

Please find attached this month’s HR Bulletin, which contains all the key recent developments on HR.  This includes:- an overview of the TUC’s Dying to Work Campaign an update on IR35 and an opportunity for you to feed in your issues/concerns and improvements you’d like to guidance and the on-line tool reference...

The March EMC HR Bulletin is now available from the link above. Employment Law expert Darren Newman provides an article on the implications for employers of Employment Tribunal decisions being available on the internet, along with updates on; Review of the National Pay Spine, Intermediaries – Review of IR35 and...

Midlands Connect Strategy: Powering the Midlands Engine outlines the region’s vision to become an engine for growth through investment in transport infrastructure for this generation and the next.  Eighteen months ago Midlands Connect was formed with the task of researching and developing a strategy for improving transport...

Midlands Engine Strategy launched by Chancellor of the Exchequer The Midlands Engine Strategy has been launched today (Thursday 9 March 2017), the Strategy includes new funding allocations for Local Enterprise Partnerships in the East Midlands. Local Enterprise Partnership   New Funding Allocation Derby...