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First UK worker develops 'Popcorn Worker's Lung'
A Yorkshire man is believed to be the first person in the UK to develop ‘Popcorn Worker’s Lung,’ a breathing condition affecting workers in the food packaging industry.Martin Muir, 38, issued court proceedings against his former employer Firmenich, based in Thirsk, after he developed bronchiolitis obliterans. The case was recently sett...
News | 3 Mar 2008
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Strategy unveiled to improve the health and wellbeing of UK workers
Two Government departments and the HSE joined forces yesterday [19 October] in a partnership committed to improving the health and wellbeing of working age people. David Blunkett and Patricia Hewitt launched the first stage of an strategy placing real responsibility not just in the hands of Government, but also with employers, individuals, the healthcare profession and stakeholders. The strategy, Health, Work and Wellbeing - Caring for our Future, pulls together all the different strands of work going on in th...
News | 20 Oct 2005
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Poor diet weighs workers down
...here is so much that individuals can do to improve their health and energy levels and small steps can make an enormous difference. "Ensuring people have access to information in the workplace, as well as from health professionals, about how to incorporate healthy changes into their lives is the first step in helping them to make the changes they want to make." The study reinforces the findings of previous studies which suggest that obesity harms productivity in the workplace. According to estimates, 18 million working days are lost in England and Wales every year due to obesity. Nat...
News | 27 Oct 2005
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UK to lobby Europe against maternity proposals
Edward Davey, Minister for Employment Relations, will visit Brussels today to lobby on the Pregnant Workers Directive. Mr Davey will attend a meeting of the EU Employment Council (EPSCO) – the first opportunity that Member States have had to discuss proposals put forward by MEPs in October. The Government is concerned that a move to 20 weeks of maternity leave at full pay, as proposed by the European Parliament, would impose “considerable and unacceptable additional costs” on many M...
News | 6 Dec 2010
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UK needs more and better qualified graduates
...m earned by graduates over those with mid-level education slipping only marginally in the past ten years from 157% in 1998 to 154% in 2008. Employment in knowledge associated occupations (managerial, professional, associate professional and technical) increased by approximately 30,000 between the first quarters of 2008 and 2010. In contrast, manual, administrative and unskilled occupations saw a fall in employment of 750,000 over the same period.
News | 23 Sep 2010
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Agency Workers Regulations laid before Parliament
...nt factor in our ability to create jobs. “It is only by engaging in the mainstream of Europe, actively influencing proposals and securing hard won agreements that we have been able to deliver a sensible and balanced package.” Under the Regulations, which come into force next year, for the first time agency workers will be entitled to equal treatment on basic working and employment conditions, including pay and holidays, as if they had been recruited directly by the hirer after 12 weeks in a given job. The rights on pay will apply not just to the basic hourly rate, but to all pay for w...
News | 22 Jan 2010
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First set of standards launched for OH services
The first set of performance standards for occupational health services have been launched in the UK. These standards, which have been developed by the Faculty of Occupational Medicine in partnership with a multi-disciplinary, multi-agency stakeholder group, were launched last week by Dame Carol Bla...
News | 18 Jan 2010
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Investigation launched into safety of UK paper industry
...after a survey of paper industry workplaces in the United States suggested a "widespread dilution of health and safety procedures", according to union Workers Uniting, which will be carrying out the UK research. The US survey was carried out by United Steelworkers (USW). Workers Uniting is the first global union and is a partnership between USW and Unite the Union. The joint paper industry campaign is the largest health and safety research project in the history of the industry and is the first to connect workers in different continents. According to USW, the US survey revealed widesprea...
News | 24 Nov 2009
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Talents of skilled staff in UK are often wasted
...neering skills in the UK, yet only 42% use these skills, leaving a significant resource of 1.5 million. The good news for the UK is that Britain’s talent performs ahead of all of its European neighbours. The UK ranks overall number one in the Locations Skills Index within the report, and is in first or second positions in technical IT, engineering, life sciences, financial services, and food technologies. Peter Lemagnen, Managing Director of Oxford Intelligence, commented: “The positive outlook is that the UK has a strong skills resource and that potential solutions are at hand. There is ...
News | 28 May 2009
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Employers of non-European workers "face radical changes"
... companies and universities to retail organisations and charities on this. Research and development is another area where this is relevant. This often applies to skilled workers with a particular niche because it has to be shown that there is not an available EU worker who could do the job."For the first time employers will have to register for the right to employ migrant workers at all. This involves becoming a sponsor. That will for the first time give employers ongoing responsibilities for ensuring the eligibility of migrant workers for the jobs they do.The new rules demand: that employers monit...
News | 12 Sep 2008
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Growing call to tackle young worker health and safety
...es of young people in the workplace. Over the last decade 14,500 teenagers have been seriously injured at work and 66 killed. To help prevent these unnecessary deaths and injuries, the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) has produced a six point action plan, Putting young workers first. Prime Minister Tony Blair voiced his support for the plan during Prime Minister’s Question Time: "The HSE and IOSH are absolutely right to bring forward a plan that will help to make young people more aware of the potential hazards in the workplace." The plan calls on the Government ...
News | 5 Mar 2007
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Business Continuity: The risk of a pandemic in the UK
...ar are devoting considerable resources to identifying these issues and determining appropriate responses to them. In late 2006 the UK Financial Services Authority (that FSA as opposed to the Food Standards Agency) ran a 6 week exercise based on a Pandemic hitting the UK. It concentrated just on the first wave and in exercise simulated time lasted 22 sequential weeks. The findings just published, revealed comparatively good resistance, but weak points in areas such as Crisis management and HR. If you are interested here in very brief form, is how the exercise rolled out (based on Health Protection A...
News | 13 Feb 2007
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Employers and Government must do more to protect young workers
...ing out checks on employers providing work placements. The president of IOSH, Neil Budworth, said: “I find it appalling that more than 50 under-18s died and 13,000 have been badly injured in five years in UK workplaces. Young people are particularly vulnerable when they start work for the first time. “Employers must do more to protect them, but the Government also needs to wake up to the dangerous situations young people are being put in. “I call on the Government to act now to bring about changes to the way work experience and young workers are managed. The current situation ...
News | 16 Jun 2006
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Office workers at risk from 'e-thrombosis'
... deep vein thrombosis (DVT) if they sit at their computer screens for long periods without a break, health experts have warned. The warning came, as it emerged that a computer programmer from Bristol almost died after eight-hours spent in front of his computer in what is believed to be one of the first cases in the UK of a growing phenomenon dubbed e-thrombosis. This is a type of DVT, and is the same condition known to affect airline passengers. Beverley Hunt, medical director of the charity Lifeblood, said few office workers seemed aware that they could be affected in the same way as air passe...
News | 9 May 2006
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Landmark settlement for part-time worker sets precedent
...several years Ms Maxton taught more hours than colleagues who were employed on full-time contracts doing broadly similar work, yet earned as much as £10,000 a year less. She was denied career development opportunities and had to work excessively long hours to earn sufficient income. She is the first hourly paid UK teaching professional to successfully use the Part-Time Workers (Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000 to challenge an employer on the difference in treatment between part-time hourly paid and full-time staff. Ms Maxton said: "I sought a fair deal after reading about new...
Case | 27 Jan 2006
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Temporary Workers Directive still a Threat to UK Businesses
...sal that the same pay and benefits need not be given to workers engaged for six weeks or less. Opponents of the Directive had been lobbying for a significant extension to this period. Far from succeeding in this it seems instead that temporary agency workers will now be afforded protection from the first day of their assignment. Emphasising its wish to balance workforce flexibility and protection of temporary workers, the Committee accepted that any bans or restrictions on temporary agency work should be reviewed by member states and maintained only if justified. They also decided that the groun...
News | 29 Oct 2002
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More Workers Should Be Protected by Disability Legislation, Claims DRC
A legal loophole which allows employers and businesses to discriminate against people with conditions such as Cancer and Multiple Sclerosis must be closed immediately, claims the Disability Rights Commission (DRC). Publishing its first major review of current disability discrimination law, the DRC is pressing the Government to introduce legislation to cover people with progressive conditions to ensure they are protected against discrimination from the point at which they are diagnosed. Currently, the Disability Discrimination Act...
News | 7 May 2003
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Reaction to EC proposals for agency workers
The first reaction to yesterday's approval of the Temporary Workers Directive by the European Commission came from the CBI, which attacked the Directive, describing it as "unworkable for companies and for workers". The TUC has published its own response, with a predictably opposite reaction. CBI John C...
News | 21 Mar 2002
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Recent developments affecting young workers
Two recent developments mean that employers of young workers will need to review their working practices. Firstly, after taking advantage of the time-limited opt outs offered by the Young Workers Directive the UK is now to implement that Directive. Secondly, employers of young workers should be aware of greater responsibilities under the Health and Safety Executive's recent update of their health and safety ...
News | 31 Jan 2001
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Unemployment rate highest since 1996
...While it may be tempting to blame the latest poor labour market figures on the Eurozone crisis, there is no evidence whatsoever for such a conclusion. The labour market has been in the doldrums since well before the problems in the Eurozone kicked off. Unemployment, having grown dramatically in the first year of the recession to Spring 2009, has remained stuck in the 2.5-2.6 million range for the last two and a half years. Similarly job vacancies, having fallen rapidly in the first year of the recession, have remained flat at around 450,000 for the last two and a half years.“What is true, however...
News | 17 Nov 2011
