Search results for Agency workers: are all working practices bound to change
Subjects
Formats
Services
Did you mean to type: Agency worker's are all working practices bound to change? (1 result)
16 results found
-
Agency workers: are all working practices bound to change?
© Workplace Law Group 2008 All rights reserved Agency workers: are all working practices bound to change? Agency workers: are all working practices bound to change? News of a revised Agency Workers Directive is still awaited from Europe and is unlikely to emerge before early 2009. For the time being, employers and agency workers alike are in the dark as to how equality of employment rights for agency...
News analysis | 28 Aug 2008
-
Agency workers: are all working practices bound to change?
...-in-mouth from the clowns in the EU trying to find something to do to pass their time along. Why, oh why, in these days of consultation and general involvement, has there been no discussion with industry BEFORE the imposition of unwanted and retrograde legislation? Who benefits from this? Not the Agency workers, who will have less opportunities; not the employers who will lose the flexibility of variable workforces; hardly the EU as there are likely to be more people claiming unemployment benefits due to a lack of availability of temporary work. So who is going to listen to, and take note of, the...
Comment | 29 Aug 2008
-
Agency workers: are all working practices bound to change?
Will the rights work in both directions? i.e. will an employee be able to say "here is a freelance contractor who gets £40 per hour, I want the same?"
Comment | 29 Aug 2008
-
Agency Workers Directive: Commission identifies 'key areas'
...ommendations to Government are taking shape and we will continue to seek the input of the wider recruitment and employer community."The next meeting of the REC Agency Work Commission is due to take place on 29 October.More information on the Agency Workers Directive may be found in the briefing, ‘Agency workers: are all working practices bound to change?’, downloadable here >>
News | 30 Sep 2008
-
Grinding to a halt: Why Government policy risks bringing business to a standstill
...AW Three firms fined £75,500 for packaging offences; construction firm prosecuted for blacklisting; and £300,000 fine for radiation breach. 2427 January 2011, London 2124 February 2011, London 710 March 2011, Cambridge 2124 March 2011, London 27 ThE FULL FORCE OF ThE LAW The Environment Agency in England and Wales will start using new civil sanctions for environmental breaches in 2011. Alex Davies explains what this could mean for employers. 09 COMMENT The resignation of Lord Young will not deter the Government's plans to review health and safety says Richard Jones, IOSH Policy and Tech...
Magazine issue | 4 Jan 2011
-
Same old: has health and safety really changed after the Young review?
...iciency Scheme (formerly known as the Carbon Reduction Commitment) is the UK's mandatory climate change and energy saving scheme, which aims to improve energy efficiency and reduce the amount of carbon dioxide emissions in the UK. The scheme started in April 2010 and is regulated by the Environment Agency. It is central to the UK's strategy for improving energy efficiency and reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 by at least 80% compared with emissions in 1990, as set out in the Climate Change Act 2008. The scheme will affect large organisations in the private and public sectors, especially at s...
Magazine issue | 1 Nov 2010
-
Sweeping changes
...The Act implements some of the recommendations of the Pitt review, which was commissioned following floods in the summer of 2007. The Act sets out a broad management strategy from the local to national level, for the management of floods and the risks of coastal erosion. It requires the Environment Agency (EA) and the Welsh Ministers to develop national strategies for flood and risks of coastal erosion, and requires local authorities to develop local flood risk management strategies. Each local authority must then implement, produce guidance for, and act in accordance with, these strategies. The EA ...
Magazine issue | 1 Jul 2010
-
48: How the 48-hour working week could push employers to the max
...rtner profile and more ... Establishing health and safety liability in R v. Chargot Limited. Page 28 NEBOSH National General Certificate: choose your direction STUDY OVER 10 WEEKS Contents In this issue ... LATEST 05 EDITORIAL The worlds of health and safety, employment and premises management are forever changing, but it is not often we have a day where breaking news is quite as significant as on 17 December, when the European Parliament voted on proposed amendments to the Working Time Directive. CLASSROOM IN LONDON 22 FOCuS 12 48: puShING WORKING TImE TO ThE mAx? The European Parliament...
Magazine issue | 5 Feb 2009
-
Religious beliefs: should employers cater for all faiths?
...omen at Work Commission; · Examination of the right to flexible working with a view to extending it to those with caring responsibilities; · An improvement in protection for migrant workers and strengthening of measures against employers who seek to exploit them; · Introduction of the Temporary (Agency) Workers Directive. 5145/5240/4925/5551/5516/5571 june issued proposals to amend the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 (MHSWR) and the Health and Safety (Consultation with Employees) Regulations 1996 (HSCER).The proposals can be viewed at: www.hse.gov.uk. The closing date fo...
Magazine issue | 1 May 2005
-
Survival of the fit note?
...e explosion and fire at its Bacton gas terminal in Norfolk in 2008. The explosion blew the concrete roof off a buffering tank within the plant, hurling concrete and metal debris over a large area and sucking a nearby drain out of the ground. After investigating the incident, the HSE and Environment Agency jointly prosecuted the firm over safety, environmental control and pollutionprevention failures at the plant leading to the explosion. The court heard that it was fortunate that, at the time of the explosion, daytime plant personnel were returning to offices to prepare for shift handovers, and the ...
Magazine issue | 5 Jul 2011
-
The world in your hands?
...s or equipment; however, insurance cannot protect against all possible risks. This is of particular consideration with regards to geographical location, for instance some areas may be more prone to flooding and the effects of sea-level change than others, making them less insurable. The Environment Agency reported that the 2007 flooding in the UK led to 180,000 insurance claims, totalling over £3bn, and affecting businesses in various ways. For instance, as reported by CBI (2009), businesses lost short-term computing capacity and long-held data when network servers were damaged by flood waters. Ann...
Magazine issue | 8 Jan 2010
-
Buncefield disaster: the aftermath and what you can learn from it
...on, sustained structural damage. Clothing retail firm, ASOS, was also badly affected. The blast blew in the doors of its warehouse and then pulled them out again, while the office inside the warehouse was completely destroyed as the sprinkler system drenched all the stock. The 110 permanent and 200 agency staff were unable to get back on site for five days, and when they did it was to encounter a scene of devastation, with smashed light fittings everywhere and water and glass all over the floor. It too was forced temporarily to suspend its shares on the London Stock Exchange as well as refund the go...
Magazine issue | 5 May 2009
-
Headache? Try new and improved law and regulation!
...orking is still going to go ahead this April. Jamie Beatson spoke to BERR to find out why. Guarantee your team has the right skills now and in the future. Sign up free today at www.safety-health-expo.co.uk 12 - 14 May 2009. Halls 1 & 2. NEC Birmingham Show Partners Organised By "As in many other areas, UK law isn't fitting into EU law and this is creating gaps and inconsistencies." p.16 3 www.workplacelaw.net Editorial Comment from the Editor ... Workplace Law Group Second Floor, Daedalus House, Station Road, Cambridge CB1 2RE T. 0871 777 8881 F. 0871 777 8882 Editor Claire Fuller Sub Edito...
Magazine issue | 1 Apr 2009
-
"We don't serve wheelchairs"
...hat they give effect to their judicial oath by hearing all cases. The EAT considered three elements to a successful claim of indirect discrimination. First, was there a provision, criterion or practice which disadvantages persons who Case law Is homeworking a reasonable adjustment? In Environment Agency v. Rowan [2007], the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) upheld the employer's appeal against a finding of disability discrimination and indicated that a trial period of working from home would be unlikely, in itself, to amount to a reasonable adjustment under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995. L...
Magazine issue | 1 Jan 2008
-
R v. Beckingham: case closed
...gionnaires' Disease was the main cause of death in relation to two of the counts of manslaughter.) The incident was jointly investigated by Cumbria Constabulary and the HSE in accordance with the partnership protocol for coordinating the investigation into work-related deaths. The Health Protection Agency provided scientific assistance and identified that in some patients the incident was caused by Legionella pneumophila Sg 1 subtype Benidorm. During the investigation some 135 potential witnesses were identified as being required to give evidence at any trial. In 2004, Barrow Borough Council was cha...
Magazine issue | 1 Sep 2006
-
Who's looking at you?
...g on the company a solicitors' firm, for instance, will generate a lot of confidential paperwork every day but most organisations produce sensitive waste that has the potential to compromise their own security or that of their staff or customers. A report published in 2003 by credit reference agency Experian suggests that some businesses are as bad as McGowan mostly medium-sized companies rather than large organisations like banks, financial institutions or leading retailers. Seventyone organisations' rubbish bins were investigated, revealing that invoices and headed paper were thrown away ...
Magazine issue | 1 Jul 2005
