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Michael Carty
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HR data, research and content solutions consultant ♦ Editor ♦ Writer ♦ Data analyst ♦ Blogger https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelcarty/ May today be nothing but kind to you and yours.
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Michael Carty @mjcarty.bsky.social · Nov 16
Welcome to Bluesky!

Lovely to see so many excellent people from the #HR Twitter community on here.

If you're looking for HR and what we might call "people people" to follow, I've started compiling a starter pack of folks to follow:

MJCarty's HR and people people starter pack

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Michael Carty @mjcarty.bsky.social · 30m
MJCarty art: The 90s collection

This blog post is a small selection of drawings and paintings I did towards the end of the last century.

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MJCarty art: The 90s collection
MJCarty art from the late 1990s: A small selection of drawings and paintings I did towards the end of the last century.
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Michael Carty @mjcarty.bsky.social · 4h
Musk settles former Twitter executives' suit over unpaid severance

#HR

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Musk settles former Twitter executives' suit over severance
Elon Musk has agreed to settle a $128m lawsuit brought by four former top executives over unpaid severance.
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Michael Carty @mjcarty.bsky.social · 5h
Of moss and mushrooms.
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Michael Carty @mjcarty.bsky.social · 6h
David Lammy rules out charging workers for employment tribunal claims

#HR

www.theguardian.com/money/2025/o...
David Lammy rules out charging workers for employment tribunal claims
Justice secretary says right to challenge unfair work behaviour is core to Labour work plan after union backlash
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Michael Carty @mjcarty.bsky.social · 8h
National Guard poised to enter Chicago as Trump calls for jailing Democratic leaders

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Michael Carty @mjcarty.bsky.social · 8h
Fragrantly floral #FridayJunior felicitations!

#EarlyShift
Colour photo of a white flower. This image is on Wikimedia Commons, with the following title: "Spring_flowers_-_Helsinki1". If you have taken the time to access this text, may today be nothing but kind to you and yours.
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Michael Carty @mjcarty.bsky.social · 1d
Trump administration questions automatic back pay for furloughed US employees

#HR

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Michael Carty @mjcarty.bsky.social · 1d
Typical worker ‘would need to save over a lifetime’s earnings to become wealthy’

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www.standard.co.uk/business/mon...
Typical worker ‘would need to save over a lifetime’s earnings to become wealthy’
Who your parents are – rather than how hard you work – is increasingly shaping living standards over a lifetime, the Resolution Foundation said.
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Michael Carty @mjcarty.bsky.social · 1d
Wednesday waves, warmest well wishes!

What are you most looking forward to from today?

#EarlyShift
Colour painting of waves. This image is on Wikimedia Commons, with the following title: "Bohomazov-the-sea-waves-namu-finland". If you have taken the time to access this text, may today be nothing but kind to you and yours.
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Michael Carty @mjcarty.bsky.social · 2d
MJCarty art: The 90s collection

#Art #Illustration #Drawing #Painting

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MJCarty art: The 90s collection
MJCarty art from the late 1990s: A small selection of drawings and paintings I did towards the end of the last century.
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Michael Carty @mjcarty.bsky.social · 2d
Renewable energy produces more electricity than coal for the first time, experts say

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Renewable energy produces more electricity than coal for the first time, experts say
Solar and wind are now growing fast enough to not only meet the world's growing appetite for electricity, but to outstrip it.
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Michael Carty @mjcarty.bsky.social · 2d
Water bills: millions of households in England could face even bigger rises

www.theguardian.com/money/2025/o...
Water bills: millions of households in England could face even bigger rises
CMA poised to give verdict after appeal by five firms for permission to increase bills higher than allowed by Ofwat
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Michael Carty @mjcarty.bsky.social · 2d
Terrific Tuesday tidings, friends!

#EarlyShift
Colour photo of a misty sunrise. This image is on Wikimedia Commons, with the following title: "Isojärvi_sunrise_4". If you have taken the time to access this text, may today be nothing but kind to you and yours.
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Michael Carty @mjcarty.bsky.social · 3d
Spectacular Sussex skies, mere moments ago.
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Michael Carty @mjcarty.bsky.social · 3d
Trump’s diversity orders a ‘major step back’ in gender equality, Frostrup warns

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Trump’s diversity orders a ‘major step back’ in gender equality, Frostrup warns
Women’s campaigner Mariella Frostrup said she is ‘optimistic’ as a report shows a 19% rise in big UK firms meeting gender equality benchmarks.
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Michael Carty @mjcarty.bsky.social · 3d
Morrisons to track shop floor staff in crackdown on slow workers

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www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
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Michael Carty @mjcarty.bsky.social · 3d
A very good Monday and a very good new week to you, friends!

How are you feeling, right now?

#EarlyShift
Colour photo of a beach at sunrise. This image is on Wikimedia Commons, with the following title: "Isojärvi_sunrise_3". If you have taken the time to access this text, may today be nothing but kind to you and yours.
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Michael Carty @mjcarty.bsky.social · 3d
No one single course of potato preparation in mind - but some uses will include boiling, mashing and roasting, for sure!
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Michael Carty @mjcarty.bsky.social · 3d
They are Albert Bartlett Rooster potatoes. This is my third year growing them - they seem to be a particularly reliable potato to grow.
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Michael Carty @mjcarty.bsky.social · 3d
Thank you! I think that may have been my biggest spud harvest ever. Something seemed to go right with the weather conditions for them this year.
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Michael Carty @mjcarty.bsky.social · 4d
2025 potato crop harvested!
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Michael Carty @mjcarty.bsky.social · 5d
MJCarty art: The 90s collection

My latest bloggage presents a small selection of drawings and paintings I did towards the end of the last century.

mjcarty.com/2025/10/04/m...
MJCarty art: The 90s collection
MJCarty art from the late 1990s: A small selection of drawings and paintings I did towards the end of the last century.
mjcarty.com
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Michael Carty @mjcarty.bsky.social · 5d
Majority of workers still awaiting compensation under tribunal penalty scheme, investigation finds

#HR

www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/article/1934...
Majority of workers still awaiting compensation under tribunal penalty scheme, investigation finds
Thousands of workers see claims go unpaid as government enforcement programme fails to secure awards
www.peoplemanagement.co.uk
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Michael Carty @mjcarty.bsky.social · 5d
‘Motherhood penalty’ costs women an average £65,618 in pay by time first child turns five

www.theguardian.com/money/2025/o...
‘Motherhood penalty’ costs women an average £65,618 in pay by time first child turns five
Women’s average monthly earnings fall by 42% compared with one year before birth, ONS study finds
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Michael Carty @mjcarty.bsky.social · 5d
Gentlest Saturday morning greetings, friends.

How are you feeling, in this moment?

Should you fancy a wee bit of #EarlyShift reading, my new bloggage is up at MJCarty.com!
Colour photo of a sunrise seen through a crashing wave. This image is on Wikimedia Commons, with the following title: "640px-朝日". If you have taken the time to access this text, may today be nothing but kind to you and yours.
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