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Growing call to tackle young worker health and safety
There are growing calls from MPs, from all political parties, for a Parliamentary debate and government action over the number of deaths and injuries 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 a...
News | 5 Mar 2007
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3 strikes and your fire's not out!
...n't admit that the legislation and accompanying budgetary cuts are putting workplaces at risk? 06 LEGAL CALENDAR Key legislative dates and events taking place during November and December 2007. FOCUS 12 3 STRIKES AND YOUR FIRE'S NOT OUT! Measures to cut the cost to the fire service of false alarm callouts could see businesses lacking in emergency support in the event of a real fire. Sarah Clark investigates how the Fire Service's lack of funding is endangering the safety of workplaces and those within them. and Local Government why there have been no charges under the RRO that weren't brought a...
Magazine issue | 8 Nov 2007
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Facefacts: The real cost of social networking to your business
...pecially new concept social networking has been around for a while now, and there are other networking sites such as MySpace, Bebo or Friendster, that people have been using for some time as a way to keep in regular contact with friends and family. What is new, though, is what seems like an ever-growing campaign to ban the Facebook site from workplaces. Newspapers are full of reports of large organisations taking the leap into prohibiting employees from using the site at all, seemingly drastic measures that don't necessarily address the problem. Transport for London, Lloyds TSB, the Metropolitan P...
Magazine issue | 16 Oct 2007
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Employment Tribunals: back to the future?
...n n ch io t lat an is r t eg po o l Im t Who should attend? An essential event for facilities managers, project managers, designers, architects and developers. Energy Performance of Buildings 2006: Special Report worth £99 absolutely FREE when you book before 31 August 2007. Book your places now call 0870 777 8881 or visit www.workplacelaw.net quoting ref. 1843 R R P £9 9. 00 workplacelaw MAGAZINE Kelly Mansfield T. 01223 431 054 Putting a price on life Is the Corporate Manslaughter Bill possibly the most drawn-out piece of legislation ever to be introduced? It's taken 11 years to get ...
Magazine issue | 1 Jul 2007
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Sweeping changes
...e that they wanted to see less red tape but some are worried about how farreaching changes to health and safety could be. IOSH was forced recently (p.7) to refute newspaper allegations that health and safety rules prevented paramedics helping the victims of the shootings in Cumbria, and there is growing concern among Workplace Law members that these inflammatory newspaper headlines reflect that of wider government policy (p.45). One area, however, where you can rest assured there will continue to be much Government activity, is in environmental law, and in his interview (p. 22) Workplace Law's new...
Magazine issue | 1 Jul 2010
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Dealing with bogus claimants
... the internet, bad press does not go away as quickly as it used to, and the consequences of this may have a direct negative www.workplacelaw.net While employment law experts call for the Employment Tribunal system to be tightened up to offer more protection to employers from serial litigants, the growing number of weak and vexatious claims is also causing concern, reports Sarah Wray. Recent figures published by the Tribunals Service reveal that 151,000 claims were accepted in 2008-09. While the vast majority of tribunal claims are genuine, a damaging minority are lodged, not by genuine claimants, ...
Magazine issue | 1 Mar 2010
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Euromillions
...to help it name and shame offenders, I do not know." Book your places today! Call the training team on 0871 777 8881 quoting promotion code 1843 or visit www.workplacelaw.net/training/publiccourses Act2007introducedscope to increase fines for errant companies, but then the level of fines had been growing in any event. No, it was being named and shamed in a `corporate killers' register losing your corporate reputation that would be the biggest change under the new penalty regime. So given this reliance on naming and shaming, how effective is it? It seems fair to say that naming and shaming wil...
Magazine issue | 2 Oct 2008
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Mug’s game? Excessive risk aversion
...raise the interesting question: when it comes to health and safety how far is too far? Why are employers going to seemingly extreme lengths in order to do what the HSE itself admits is impossible, namely the eradication of all risk? Health and Safety Consultant Bill Scholes believes it is down to a growing fear of being sued. As one Workplace Law Network member commented in our online forum: "the problem is because of our fear of not doing enough in this litigious society that we have developed, we now sometimes try to do too much." Even the Government has begun to focus on the issue of excessive ris...
Magazine issue | 1 Jul 2006
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Old git, or still work fit?
...the barriers to longer working in response to changing demographics and an ageing population. But some people believe that, rather than encouraging organisations to keep people on after 65, the new age regulations will actually encourage employers to retire everyone at that age. At the same time, a growing pensions crisis means that the Government is likely to raise the age at which people can claim their state pension. The Pensions Commission recently issued its long-awaited report on pension reform, calling for the basic state pension to be increased in line with earnings rather than prices. To ma...
Magazine issue | 1 Feb 2006
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The year of living dangerously
...s continuity effectively . The new six pack This article looked at the history of health and safety legislation from the introduction of the HSWA in 1974 up to the new top six health and safety laws to be introduced in 2005. workplacelaw 13 JULY/AUGUST Identity theft is thought to be the fastest-growing kind of crime in the world. It already costs UK industry £50m a year. If your business name is exploited the resulting lack of confidence and damage to reputation can be harder to put right than financial damage. You also have a responsibility to staff to protect their personal data, or they could...
Magazine issue | 1 Dec 2005
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Disability access: is it becoming clear yet?
...0 people and specialises in building services and maintenance. It has already transferred more than 1,000 people in significant contracts from the public and private sector, including the MoD, the Inland Revenue and major financial organisations such as Royal Bank of Scotland. `The company has been growing every year for 43 years and hardly a week goes by without a TUPE issue arising either because of a contract we're likely to win or have won, or occasionally because we might have lost a contract and the employees have to transfer to a new contractor,' says David. `One of the problems with TUPE a...
Magazine issue | 1 Sep 2005
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Business as usual? London bomb blasts
...0 people and specialises in building services and maintenance. It has already transferred more than 1,000 people in significant contracts from the public and private sector, including the MoD, the Inland Revenue and major financial organisations such as Royal Bank of Scotland. `The company has been growing every year for 43 years and hardly a week goes by without a TUPE issue arising either because of a contract we're likely to win or have won, or occasionally because we might have lost a contract and the employees have to transfer to a new contractor,' says David. `One of the problems with TUPE a...
Magazine issue | 1 Sep 2005
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Internships – Are you breaking the law?
...to visit the website and take a few minutes to tell us the regulations you deal with on a daily basis. This is your chance to make sure that consumers are properly protected from unscrupulous traders or give us the evidence we need to remove the unnecessary bureaucracy that stops your business from growing." The Red Tape Challenge website is at: www. redtapechallenge.cabinetoffice. gov.uk/home/index/ Building planning proposals in the 2011 Budget Nigel Hewitson, Head of Planning, Norton Rose Unusually, the 2011 Budget contained a number of planning proposals. The two measures that had been trailed a...
Magazine issue | 3 May 2011
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ETs on the rise
... 8881 Buy online: www.workplacelaw.net Please quote reference 1843 when booking your places 14 CASE LAW Christian homelessness officer advising `faith in God' loses Tribunal claim; and `whistleblower' ordered to pay half of Tribunal costs. 27 STRENGTH IN NUMBERS Facilities management networks are growing in popularity "The DRA has caused controversy since the Age Regulations came into force, and has come under challenge from age discrimination campaigners." P.34 3 www.workplacelaw.net group group workplace law health and safety workplace law health and safety workplace law human resources ...
Magazine issue | 1 Sep 2010
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The Diversity Dilemma
...recently, a news story regarding a Sikh PC who was awarded compensation after being told to take off his turban provoked another flurry of comments. As the lead story in this month's issue, Dealing with Diversity (p.18) reveals, while the UK remains a predominantly Christian country, it does have a growing, and (by contrast to many non-practicing Christians) devout working population, which includes Hindus, Sikhs, Jews, Buddhists and Muslims. Employers need to uphold a fine balance between supporting those from minority faith groups without alienating their (nominally or practicing) Christian colleag...
Magazine issue | 2 Nov 2009
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Have we binned your Workplace Law Magazine?
...: n The UK and EU Emissions Trading Schemes Availiable as PDF download n The new Building Regulations n The European Energy Performance of Buildings Directive n Energy logbooks and their practical application n Carbon footprints n Energy Performance Certificates n The Climate Change Bill There is a growing demand on employers to manage buildings more efficiently, thereby saving energy in the workplace. In 2006, new responsibilities were placed on building owners, surveyors, facilities managers and tenants to tackle energy effi ciency in all new buildings and when refurbishing existing buildings, unde...
Magazine issue | 7 Apr 2008
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"We don't serve wheelchairs"
.... This issue we address just how far things have come in the last 30 years or so, as we look back at some of the very first key discrimination cases that have influenced how the law and workplaces as a whole have developed. Sir Bert also gives a personal insight into the way things were when he was growing up in the 50s and 60s as a disabled child. This month we have also included an exclusive guide to training in the fields of health and safety, HR and employment law. Located in the centre of this issue, this guide gives you an in-depth insight into new developments in training and how to best spend...
Magazine issue | 1 Jan 2008
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Energy management special issue
...he energy we use. But indications suggest that the Government is willing to legislate to ensure that the future is, instead, a "carbon saving one". What will this mean for business? How `green' is your workplace? 16 The issue of sustainability, and creating a sustainable workplace, is one that is growing in importance as energy efficiency gets placed on the business agenda. But can an FM juggle becoming sustainable with keeping employees involved and happy? Patrick Dye finds out. Every little helps ... 20 Tesco is leading the way in exploiting renewable sources of energy, in line with aims highli...
Magazine issue | 1 Feb 2007
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The sex issue
...urrounding `sex': the suitability of sex discrimination legislation is discussed from page 8; we offer a 10-step guide to complying with sexual orientation regulations from page 13; and, finally, address the myths and uncertainties around employing staff who carry the HIV virus something that is growing in importance in the workplace from page 20. Changes introduced to the Disability Discrimination Act in 2005, which now place those with the HIV condition under the protection of the Act, means employers now need to consider introducing a policy on HIV and AIDS into the workplace. It's a tricky ...
Magazine issue | 1 May 2006
