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Businesses warned about the risks of long hours culture
...their role or the need for employees to ‘take home’ pay to support their families.“Around 37% of employees are failing to take lunch breaks so as a first step, employers should be encouraging a good work/life balance and promote a culture that encourages staff to take their statutory break.“Businesses need to be aware that longer working hours can affect workplace performance. For example, higher accidents or injuries could result, as well as firms experiencing an increase in claims of incapacity and long term sickness benefits.“There should be a strong focus on stress management, which should...
News | 2 Jul 2009
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Businesses warned about the risks of long hours culture
Whatno - comment? Well i for one, as i am told, can't resist saying somefink about protecting my bottom line from significant impairment from the fatal software error known to techies as an ID - 10 - T fault. My Mum said: "son, you can work hard or you can work smart" she didn't say no more but was prone to laughing when i ran around like a headless chicken perspirin and holdi...
Comment | 4 Jul 2009
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Perk of the job? Managing the risks faced by loneworkers
...ile workers' -- meaning there are an increasing number of people working alone. And there are a growing number of reasons for employers to require or allow workers -- whether employees or contractors -- to work in this way. Demands on employers to operate more sustainably, for example, is cause for businesses to consider whether they require employees to travel to the premises every day or whether they could work just as -- or even more -- productively at home. And with the extension of the right to request flexible working to parents of children up to 16 years of age -- an estimated 4.5 million additio...
Magazine issue | 5 Jun 2008
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Open for Business
...0 public sector jobs in the first few months of office. The most high profile argument between the Labour and Conservative Parties regarding the economy has been over Labour's proposed 1% rise in National Insurance in 2011 for anyone earning over £20,000, which the Tories and a number of prominent businesses vehemently oppose. We were interested in the wider implications for employers of a change of Government or a return to power for Labour, and, in the lead feature on p.18 we outline the three parties' key employment policies. It is in attitudes to Europe, health and safety and in particular employme...
Magazine issue | 4 May 2010
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2005: getting to grips with the legal year ahead
...teps to get to grips with the legal year ahead Dec 2004 / Jan 2005 Noise at work New duties to protect employees' hearing `Fat' discrimination Could overweight employees be considered disabled under DDA? Private life Do employees have a duty to behave outside of work? Corporate killing Will businesses be held responsible for workplace fatalities? In every issue: employment law, health & safety, premises management Contents 06 News The latest legal developments affecting the workplace and those to look out for in the upcoming months Looking ahead to the New Year 09 Letters New! Workplace Law...
Magazine issue | 15 Dec 2004
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Survival of the fit note?
...nal Group Board at RICS, discusses the AssocRICs qualification and RICS' Professionalising FM campaign. 46 DIARY Coming soon from Workplace Law. Booking line: 0871 777 8881 Buy online: www.workplacelaw.net/iosh Please quote reference 1843 when booking your places eMPLOyMent uPdate 13 NEWS 97% of businesses dissatisfied with the current tribunal system; and report reveals that older workers are being short changed on training. 24 LESSONS FROM PENHALLOW Unanswered questions surround the Penhallow Hotel fire investigation, says Fire Safety Consultant, Alan Cox. "To get the best result, employers need ...
Magazine issue | 5 Jul 2011
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Internships – Are you breaking the law?
...t too few senior roles are held in organisations by women, ethnic minorities or other For more information call 01223 431075 Visit recruitment.workplacelaw.net "The provisions of the Equality Act 2010 seem to be firmly in the Government's sights as part of this drive to reduce regulation on small businesses." P.15 3 www.workplacelaw.net workplace law health and safety editorial Comment from the Editor ... Workplace Law Group 110 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 1LQ T. 0871 777 8881 F. 0871 777 8882 Managing Editor Sara Bean Sub Editor Alex Davies Online Community Manager Gavin Bates Design Gary Jobson Mi...
Magazine issue | 3 May 2011
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Grinding to a halt: Why Government policy risks bringing business to a standstill
...is in response to recommendations made by Lord Young in his Common Sense, Common Safety Review: "RIDDOR can often be seen as a cumbersome system, and compliance is estimated at around 50%. There is evidence from the HSE of under-reporting of RIDDOR, which makes me question its successful operation. Businesses would see a significant reduction in the number of reports they need to make; it would also improve the accuracy of national statistics." 31257 A new national register of occupational safety consultants will be set up to help employers access `good quality, proportionate advice'. The Occupational ...
Magazine issue | 4 Jan 2011
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Same old: has health and safety really changed after the Young review?
...ns, and the consolidation of existing legislation. We look in more depth at the details in the feature beginning on p.18, including experts' views of the review, and the opinions expressed in the Workplace Law forums. Aside from addressing the over-regulation of health and safety amongst low hazard businesses, the review also tackles the compensation culture, including a proposal to introduce a Good Samaritan Clause into law, which would ensure that people would not be held liable for any consequences `due to well-intentioned voluntary acts on their part'. This issue is also raised in the First Aid Fact...
Magazine issue | 1 Nov 2010
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The world in your hands?
...d Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 for its failure to provide and maintain a suitable barrier around the boundary of the quarry, which is situated behind the brickworks. istockphoto.com NEWS IN BRIEF Mental health support lines launched The Government has announced new dedicated advice lines for small businesses as part of an overhaul of support for people with mental health conditions. Nine occupational health advice line pilots have been launched, giving employers access to occupational health professionals, and direct employers to advice and services. 25397 The deaths of two members of the public in un...
Magazine issue | 8 Jan 2010
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The Diversity Dilemma
...th@work (see p.24) revealed some worrying statistics when it delved into the drinking habits of younger workers in Liverpool. 28% of companies that took part said they were negatively affected by alcohol, and 31% were negatively affected by staff 's use of alcohol out of working hours. Over half of businesses thought alcohol contributed to employee sickness absence. As the Challenge on p.27 advises there is no fixed rule on drafting a drug and alcohol policy; but from monitoring the performance of staff who may be succumbing to alcohol or drug abuse, to guarding against allegations of misconduct at the ...
Magazine issue | 2 Nov 2009
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Celebrating 35 years of the Health and Safety at Work Act
...places can do to help and change the lifestyle of employees to promote a healthier workforce. This may work well with companies that employ a significant number of employees, yet, according to the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR), in 2006 only 0.1% of the 4.5 million businesses in the UK employed more than 250 people, meaning that 99.9% of companies are small or medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), as defined by the World Health Organization. This means they may not have access to professional human resources or occupational health personnel for help and advice on healthy lif...
Magazine issue | 7 Jul 2009
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Soap star: The hygiene special issue
...ement public building = public toilet? Mike Bone, British Toilet Association the bta recommends that las use their many existing powers to ensure that more public toilets are available, either by using planning, licensing and leasing powers, by running public toilets themselves, or by paying local businesses, such as shops, cafes and pubs, to provide public access to their toilets (Community toilet Schemes) as part of a toilet provision Strategy. it also wants local authorities to encourage establishments selling food and drink for consumption on the premises to provide toilet facilities for customers....
Magazine issue | 3 Mar 2009
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Employment Tribunals: back to the future?
...ecommendations to repeal the regulations RATING OF THE PROCEDURES: NAME: Michael Gibbons POSITION: Member of Ministerial Challenge Panel and Better Regulation Task Force ROLE: Selected by Secretary of State to carry out a review of dispute resolution "They represent a particular problem for small businesses and they don't fit a number of particular situations, for example agreed redundancy, fixed-term contract situations and where employees have already left employment." using legal advice and earlier in the process; and a focus on process and procedure rather than reaching an outcome. They represent ...
Magazine issue | 1 Jul 2007
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Mug’s game? Excessive risk aversion
...brought within scope of Part 3 of the DDA 1995. 6490 The deadline for comments on a new electronic online national packaging waste database is 17 November. The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 2005 ("the packaging Regulations") set recovery and recycling targets on businesses that are `producers'. Higher recovery and recycling targets to be met by 31 December 2008 were set in the Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive 2004/12/EC. Producers and schemes demonstrate that they have met their recovery and recycling obligations by purchasing Packaging Waste Recovery Notes (P...
Magazine issue | 1 Jul 2006
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The sex issue
... orientation 13 Positive discrimination: are some forms of discrimination better than others? Keep up-to-date on the all the latest legal developments, events and conference dates coming up over the next six months. Workplace Law Magazine readers air their views on the legal issues affecting their businesses. In 1975, groundbreaking legislation was implemented to stop sex discrimination against women in the workplace. Thirty years on Helen Bamborough asks: are we any closer to balancing the gender equation? The law says everyone should be treated equally, whatever their sexual orientation - is your w...
Magazine issue | 1 May 2006
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Buncefield disaster: the aftermath and what you can learn from it
...zine for premium members of the Workplace Law Network the aftermath and what you can learn from it BUNCEFIELD spECIaL IssUE disaster Buncefield The planner Peter Power on Olympic-sized emergencies, and what to do about them. MAY 2009 Issue 47 Evacuate! The contingency plans to save city centre businesses in an emergency. The investigator Interview with the HSE's Buncefield investigator Taf Powell. Buncefield and your business: the lessons that all businesses can learn. Page 30 Legal update: REACH and facilities management. Page 26 plus: Legal calendar | Comment The data | Clinic | Client focus C...
Magazine issue | 5 May 2009
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Health hazards: keeping a lid on panic
...777 8881 quoting ref. 1843 or visit www.workplacelaw.net for more information www.workplacelaw.net Latest | Legal calendar Legal calendar Important diary dates for the months ahead... FEBRUARY The Government is setting out new measures to prevent illegal working following a consultation with UK businesses. Under a new system of civil penalties, employers who negligently hire illegal workers could face a maximum fine of £10,000 for each illegal worker employed. If employers are found to have knowingly hired illegal workers they could incur an unlimited fine and be sent to prison. MARCH 11 March Wor...
Magazine issue | 1 Feb 2008
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Business as usual? London bomb blasts
...issue revisits the subject to establish how far we have come since that date. Although by October 2004 employers and service providers had had years to get to grips with their duties under the Act, many were still confused as to what it meant for them when the deadline hit. For example, a number of businesses were failing to understand what the term `reasonable adjustment' meant, assuming that it always led to physical alterations. There was also an apparent lack of understanding as to what constituted a `disability', despite the fact that the legislation had been known for several years. One year later...
Magazine issue | 1 Sep 2005
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It’s a WRAP
...devoted to the new hierarchy on the DEFRA website. Implementing the hierarchy shouldn't be financially difficult either as recycling is cheaper than waste disposal. As an added incentive, a new recycling charter (see p.7) has been launched to help boost recycling rates and tackle the issues smaller businesses face in getting access to waste services. The Recycling Minister, Lord Taylor, has said the deal would bring much-needed relief for smaller businesses that want to do the right thing but are struggling to get a decent recycling service. Given the efforts by the Government to make waste management g...
Magazine issue | 2 Nov 2011
