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Dealing with bogus claimants
...ndbook 2010 Includes information on: n Accessible environments; n BREEAM; n Business rates; n CCTV monitoring; n Climate change; n Contaminated land; n Gas safety; n Occupational cancers; n PEEPS; n Strikes; n Vehicles at work, n Waste mangement n Work-related upper limb disorders (WRULDS) and much more! Employment Law and Human Resources Handbook 2010 Includes information on: n The Agency Workers' Directive; n Disciplinaries and grievances; n Employment Tribunal statistics 2008/09; n Blacklisting and vetting employees; n The new Points Based immigration system; n Employees' expenses; n Alternati...
Magazine issue | 1 Mar 2010
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Celebrating 35 years of the Health and Safety at Work Act
...one wants to talk about. Page 18 Comment: Could working from home make your staff ill? Ann Clark considers the issues. Page 9 interview: Judith Hackitt speaks to us about eradicating workplace deaths. Page 16 Page 20 Plus: Legal calendar | Challenge The data | Clinic | Legal update Case law and more ... Contents In this issue ... LATeST Accredited Centre 561 NEBOSH NatiONal GENEral CErtifiCatE our last neBoSH national general Certificate exams saw us get our best ever results from a group of over 50 delegates. See below for a detailed breakdown. NGC1: the management of safety and health ...
Magazine issue | 7 Jul 2009
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H5N1 Bird Flu: Are you playing chicken with your company’s future?
...pay gap actually decreasing? 3 workplacelaw My passion Our passion? To make life easier for Clive By being a member of the Workplace Law Network Clive is part of the fast growing online community for workplace managers in the UK. Why? Because we give you Online advice Support you can trust from more than 40 expert advisors. Ask for confidential advice and second opinions in writing! Unlimited telephone support Life support from our free legal advice and information service for all corporate members. Fast and responsive feedback from our team of HR and health and safety specialists e-bulletin...
Magazine issue | 1 Mar 2006
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Business as usual? London bomb blasts
...s the Printers Unit 10, Acre Estate, Wildmere Road, Banbury, Oxon OX16 3ES Circulation 6,000 (ISSN 1745-0160) Workplace Law Magazine is published 10 times a year by Workplace Law Group. It is available by subscription, priced £199 for one year, or free to members of the Workplace Law Network. For more information call our membership team on 0870 777 8881 Workplace Law Group Second Floor, Daedalus House, Station Road, Cambridge CB1 2RE T. 0870 777 8881 F. 0870 777 8882 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or b...
Magazine issue | 1 Sep 2005
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2005: getting to grips with the legal year ahead
... Workplace Law's panel of legal experts highlight the 10 most important actions employers must take to comply with legislation in 2005 17 Driving me mad Managing driving risk is far from the minds of most employers, says David Sharp 18 2004: a year in review Kelly Mansfield reports on some of the more curious case reports from the last year 21 Off the record Brave is the employer who embarks on the `without prejudice' route, says Gabriella Wright 22 Private property Mark Eltringham investigates the increasingly grey area between working and private lives 26 Legal update 26 Case law Cases brea...
Magazine issue | 15 Dec 2004
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Survival of the fit note?
...McDiarmid advocates investing in people. Page 45 Legal update: Lessons learnt from the super-injunctions debacle. Page 16 Chartered course Iain Brodie, Chairman of the RICS Facilities Management Executive Group. Page 22 Rights of reply Solicitor's Association argues tribunal reform could lead to more red tape. Page 27 Plus: News and case round up of the leading FM, health and safety and HR stories ... workplace law health and safety Contents In this issue ... Latest 05 EDITORIAL Note of caution. IOSH accredited training from Workplace Law IOSH Managing Safely Certificate Choose from one of...
Magazine issue | 5 Jul 2011
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Open for Business
...07 NEWS A quarter of workers have never participated in a full fire evacuation of their workplace; and the Buncefield trial continues. 27 nurse who refused to remove her crucifix at work loses her discrimination claim. business regulations to come in since Labour has been in power. Would they want more or less from a new administration? 30 teChniCAL 38 THE DATA EA: VWS' fine highlights the direct financial implications of breaching environmental law. EAT: Circumstances constituting constructive dismissal. 15 COMMENT Has the CIPD got it right that employers should not be concerned with employees...
Magazine issue | 4 May 2010
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How much does it cost to kill someone at work?
...sibilities Includes very latest information on corporate manslaughter and IoD consultation on role of directors IoD consultation draft on directors' duties on health and safety Gain IOSH accreditation for this course Call 0871 777 8881 quoting ref. 1843 or visit www.workplacelaw.net/training for more details " " Think seriously about not only the governance issues, but also the business benefits in taking direct control of and interest in health and safety. workplacelaw MAGAZINE Kelly Mansfield T. 01223 431 054 Writer Claire Fuller Putting a price on life Is the Corporate Manslaughter Bil...
Magazine issue | 1 Sep 2007
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Same old: has health and safety really changed after the Young review?
...s on the Workplace Law site during the past weeks. 09 COMMENT The Government will have to throw its weight behind the Green Investment Bank if it is to be a success, says Tim Smith. 34 DETERMINING DISCRIMINATION Advice from legal experts, James Willis and Susannah Gilmartin at Thomson Snell & Passmore, on how the Equality Act could influence claims for disability, sexual orientation, sex and race discrimination. 45 END NOTE Kelvin Reynolds of the British Parking Association on Government plans to outlaw wheelclamping on private land. 22 CULTURE ChANGE Steve Williams, Head of Equality and Diver...
Magazine issue | 1 Nov 2010
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The world in your hands?
...new Sentencing Guidelines for Corporate Manslaughter and health and safety offences come into force, companies could face fines running into millions, says Paul Verrico. foCuS 18 DOWN TO EARTh As we enter the second decade of the 21st Century, will climate change start to impact organisations in a more palpable way? Workplace Law consulted with a number of environmental experts for their views. netWoRK 42 FORUM FOCUS Reflecting Network members' views on the Workplace Law site during the past weeks. 10 FM LEGAL UPDATE Preparing for climate change by integrating a practical business strategy; and...
Magazine issue | 8 Jan 2010
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The Diversity Dilemma
...ugust, Workplace Law ran a story about a new employers' guide to Ramadan, issued by the Employers' Forum on Belief, on ways of supporting the 1.6 million Muslims living in the UK who may be observing the month-long event. It unleashed a torrent of debate on the Workplace Law forum with, to date, more than 60 posts on that subject alone. More 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 predo...
Magazine issue | 2 Nov 2009
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Changes to Workplace Law Magazine
...achieve is a matter of much debate, not least from Workplace Law Network members who are horrified that the Bill includes the provision to expand the way "positive action can be used so that employers can pick someone for a job from an underrepresented group when they have the choice between two or more candidates who are `equally suitable'". And, in an anonymous comment on p.15, an employment expert points out that the Bill's attempts to close the equality pay gap fail to recognise that, for many women, choosing to work more flexible hours may be preferable to closing gender pay gaps. How the whe...
Magazine issue | 1 Sep 2009
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Buncefield disaster: the aftermath and what you can learn from it
...ency. 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 Case law and more ... Page 7 Page 22 Page 20 Contents Let's talk safety & health In this issue ... LaTEsT 05 EDITORIAL Responsible for training? At 6.03 a.m. on 11 December 2005, journalist Colin Campbell was live on BBC News 24."I actually can just tell you that I've heard a very, very large explosion just...
Magazine issue | 5 May 2009
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CDM special
...y! ore Highly commended: PPA Magazine of the Year 2005 & 2006 -- interactive business and professional Highly commended: AOP Online Publisher of the Year 2005 -- business IN EVERY ISSUE: EMPLOYMENT LAW, HEALTH & SAFETY, PREMISES MANAGEMENT CONTENTS Legal calendar 06 Forum 07 Clients: Could Do More 08 Check that you are ready for all the events and legal developments coming into force in February and March. Thoughts and opinions from Workplace Law Network members on a hot topic. Under the new CDM 2007 Regulations the role of the client is changing -- they will now have extra responsibility fo...
Magazine issue | 1 Mar 2007
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£20 if you can prove you’re competent
...ompetent person"?' surveys for health and safety and HR professionals. But do your arguments convince the experts? Caroline Merz rounds up some of your responses. Workplace Law Network's forum and online advice services attract numerous questions surrounding the issue of `competency' including some more `unusual' ones. Katy Brown examines the varied, confusing and sometimes contradictory definitions of competency. Competency Q&A 13 Competence - how clear is 14 the meaning of the word? Not up to the job? 18 Competency in fire safety 22 We may joke about our pitiful parking or deplorable DIY, bu...
Magazine issue | 1 Nov 2006
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Licence to… protect your workplace?
... the Printers Unit 10, Acre Estate, Wildmere Road, Banbury, Oxon OX16 3ES Circulation 6,000 (ISSN 1745-0160) Workplace Law Magazine is published 10 times a year by Workplace Law Group. It is available by subscription, priced £199 for one year, or free to members of the Workplace Law Network. For more information call our membership team on 0870 777 8881 Workplace Law Group Second Floor, Daedalus House, Station Road, Cambridge CB1 2RE T. 0870 777 8881 F. 0870 777 8882 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or b...
Magazine issue | 1 Jun 2006
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Old git, or still work fit?
...rs air their views on the legal issues affecting their businesses What is the future for the workforce under new age discrimination legislation? Katy Brown questions to what degree it is acceptable for employers to interfere in the lifestyles of employees Power cut 18 Energy management is about more than just `switching it off', under new legislation taking effect this year The importance of terrorism 23 insurance Sheila Small and Katherin Coxon discuss whether employers are adequately covered by their insurance LEGAL UPDATE Case law 24 Clinic 31 Workplace Law's panel of legal advisors answ...
Magazine issue | 1 Feb 2006
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Disability access: is it becoming clear yet?
...s the Printers Unit 10, Acre Estate, Wildmere Road, Banbury, Oxon OX16 3ES Circulation 6,000 (ISSN 1745-0160) Workplace Law Magazine is published 10 times a year by Workplace Law Group. It is available by subscription, priced £199 for one year, or free to members of the Workplace Law Network. For more information call our membership team on 0870 777 8881 Workplace Law Group Second Floor, Daedalus House, Station Road, Cambridge CB1 2RE T. 0870 777 8881 F. 0870 777 8882 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or b...
Magazine issue | 1 Sep 2005
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Who's looking at you?
...NAGEMENT CONTENTS P8 06 LEGAL CALENDAR Keep tabs on legal developments, events, training and conference dates coming up over the next six months 07 LETTERS Workplace Law Magazine readers air their views on the legal issues affecting their workplaces 08 WHO'S VIEWING YOUR DATA? Has the move from more traditional working methods towards all things electronic exposed the workplace and its employees to endless security risks? Do you know how safe your confidential data is? P14 13 STANDARDS ARE ON THE INCREASE Do health and safety standards get in the way of your business rather than assist it, a...
Magazine issue | 1 Jul 2005
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Religious beliefs: should employers cater for all faiths?
...l government recognition. The BBC even joined in the campaign - reportedly encouraging people to `do it because you love Star Wars... or just to annoy people.' The result was that 390,000 of the 52,000,000 people in England and Wales entered `jedi' as their religion on the census form. While little more than a lighthearted attempt to have something loved by millions recognised as a religion, the story does highlight rather well an issue that's actually becoming rather serious for employers: is it the employer's responsibility to cater for all employees' faiths in the workplace? And if the answer i...
Magazine issue | 1 May 2005
