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First Director of Nursing for public health announced
News | 3 Jan 2012
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Directors personally liable for discrimination compensation
The EAT has recently ruled that two directors were personally liable to pay compensation for discrimination. They were found to be jointly and severally liable, together with the employer, to pay compensation and aggravated damages for discrimination. As the employer went into liquidation after th
Case | 3 Nov 2011
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Top directors’ pay up 49% in the past year
FTSE 100 directors have seen their total earnings increase by an average of 49% in the last financial year, and are now averaging £2,697,664 per year, according to the latest research from Incomes Data Services (IDS). IDS say that this increase was even higher than the 43% rise in total earnings f
News | 28 Oct 2011
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Director appears in court over wall tragedy
A company director appeared in court yesterday after a wall which he designed and his company Parcol Developments built collapsed in 2008, killing a three-year-old girl. George Collier appeared before Prestatyn magistrates where he was charged with gross negligence manslaughter. His business partn
Case | 5 Oct 2011
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Company director to face manslaughter charge after wall collapse death
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has decided that company director, George Collier, should be charged with gross negligence manslaughter in relation to the death of Meg Burgess on 26 July 2008 in Prestatyn, Wales. Meg Burgess, aged three, was killed when a wall designed by Mr Collier and constru
Case | 10 Aug 2011
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Company director found personally liable for discriminatory dismissal
A company director has been found liable for sex discrimination after dismissing a pregnant employee. The decision highlights the fact that an individual can be personally liable for a discriminatory dismissal. Danniella McClain was employed by local estate agency Hogarths, which traded under t
Case | 5 Jul 2011
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Regulatory burden on directors ‘costing £37bn a year’
In a report published this week, the Institute of Directors (IoD) claims that the amount of time company directors spend doing paperwork related to regulatory compliance has gone up from 13 hours a month in 2009 to 17 hours a month in 2010. According to the IoD, a typical director would h
News | 11 Feb 2011
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First corporate manslaughter trial hears from director
The Court for the first corporate manslaughter trial this week heard a statement from the director of the company on trial. Alexander Wright, a geologist, died in 2008 when a pit he was working in collapsed on him. The company he was working for, Cotswold Geotechnical (Holdings) Ltd, is currentl
Case | 11 Feb 2011
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Company and director fined for polluting local watercourse with detergent
A Slough company and its director has been ordered to pay more than £52,000 by Bracknell Magistrates’ Court after virtually wiping out all the fish living in a tributary of the River Thames.DS Holdings Ltd, trading as Envirogreen, a waste carrier, and its director Neil Stewart both pleaded guilty
Case | 22 Jul 2010
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Company and directors fined after member of public’s death
A Brighton-based construction company and two of its directors have been fined a total of £75,000 following the death of a member of the public at one of its building sites.The HSE prosecuted PIB (UK) Ltd for breaching section 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. The company pleaded guil
Case | 1 Jul 2010
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Reminder for political clarification on directors’ duties
News | 22 Apr 2010
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Company director gets five-year ban following health and safety breaches
A director of a fuel tank manufacturing business has been banned from directing any company for five years after breaching a raft of health and safety regulations. Brian Nixon of Evesham, Worcestershire, and managing director of Transtore (UK) Ltd was also fined £17,000. Workers at Transtore (
Case | 20 Apr 2010
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Director’s duties back on agenda with new MP’s Bill
A new Private Members Bill has been put before the House of Commons. The Health and Safety (Company Director Liability) Bill would amend the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (HSWA) to place further statutory duties on directors. Currently, directors can be prosecuted as well as the co
News | 1 Mar 2010
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Directors receive recruitment agency ban
The directors of an HGV recruitment company have been banned from running an employment agency for up to ten years following action taken by the Employment Agency Standards inspectorate (EAS). The hearing at Leeds Employment Tribunal follows an investigation by the EAS which is part of the Departme
Case | 18 Feb 2010
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Company and director prosecuted for mercury exposure
A Glasgow-registered recycling company and a director have been fined a total of £145,000 for exposing workers to toxic mercury fumes at a site in West Yorkshire.Twenty employees had levels of mercury in their system above UK guidance levels, and five of them showed extremely high levels following
Case | 8 Feb 2010
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Director fined for neglecting legionella risk
The managing director of a Black Country firm has been fined after being found to have neglected to control legionella at its site. Despite warnings from water treatment contractors, Ernest Jones of Coseley-based First Metal Finishers Ltd failed to put a management system in place for the cont
Case | 5 Feb 2010
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Government urged not to impose new legal directors' duties
A business group is urging government to resist pressure for new legal duties on directors after a new survey suggested that, despite the recession, company boards are taking a more hands-on approach and spending more time on health and safety. The survey of nearly 400 companies, conducted by EEF
News | 4 Feb 2010
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Renewed call for legally binding duties on directors
A Labour MP is calling for a new law to place legally binding safety duties on company directors. Aberdeen North MP, Frank Doran, presented his Health and Safety (Company Director Liability) Bill in a House of Commons debate earlier this month. He said that while he welcomed the introduction o
News | 1 Feb 2010
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Directors personally liable for discrimination compensation
Cor......wish I had a decision like this, not so much from the monitory point of view but just knowing that the Directors were personaly culpable!
Comment | 4 Nov 2011
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TUC calls for legally binding directors’ duties
In a new briefing document, the TUC has argued that the case for legally binding safety duties on company directors is watertight, adding they would be “the biggest driver yet in changing boardroom attitudes towards health and safety.” The union body says the current law “means that if a boa
News | 21 Dec 2009
