Workplace Law Magazine is available only to Premium Members of the Workplace Law Network. Produced 10 times each year, it is distributed in hard copy format in the first week of the month, and is also available online.
H5N1 Bird Flu: Are you playing chicken with your company’s future?
For some, a bird flu pandemic is nothing more than a bit of a laughing matter at the moment (hence our chicken on the front cover), but the point needs emphasising that if the virus has a significant impact, employers could find themselves with a workforce completely taken over by bird flu; whether they are taken ill; forced to stay home to care for family; or simply too scared to come to work. The World Health Organisation believes that a certain strain of the virus has a unique capacity to jump the species barrier and cause severe disease, with high mortality, in people. If this happens, what will you do? How will your business cope? Those who haven't made plans simply won't cope.In this issue…
Legal calendar
Keep tabs on legal developments, events, training and conference dates coming up over the next six months.
Letters
Workplace Law Magazine readers air their views on the legal matters affecting their businesses.
Playing chicken with your company’s future?
If it mutates and strikes in the UK, bird flu could soon overtake the workplace, with half of a single business’s workforce succumbing to the virus. A terrifying, genuine threat or just the next Y2K?
It could be you!
Fighting successfully against a claim at an Employment Tribunal is a simple matter taking the right steps, says Kelly Mansfield
Fire: 10 key questions
The Government appears to be playing games at bringing new fire legislation into force. Caroline Merz addresses the areas of the new law that still aren’t clear.
Sex discrimination – 30 years on
Thirty years on from the introduction of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, what has been achieved, asks Graham Richardson.
Facilities Management Legal Update: the year ahead
Workplace Law’s seventh successful annual facilities management event gave delegates a series of key action points to implement during 2006 and beyond.
Case law
Legal experts offer their views on the implications of recent case law for employers
Technical guidance
In-depth legal guidance on: giving employers the Bill for violent crime; difficult personalities: a fair reason for dismissal?; and Housing Grants, Construction Regeneration Act 1996: the implications for FMs.
Clinic
Can an employee’s wife drive him to appointments?
Analysis
Is the gender pay gap actually decreasing?
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