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Cultivating success: how to cut costs and stimulate growth
...e information and material at a steady pace. Key updates: n Disability Discrimination Acts 1995 and 2005 (including SENDA 2001) n Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 n Building Regulations Parts L, M and B n Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 n Court of Appeal widens rights to equal pay compensation. COmmeNT 07 REASONAbLE ADjUSTmENTS OR TOkEN GESTURES? If a would-be access auditor tells you "use my services and you will comply with the DDA," or a salesperson says "this piece of equipment complies with the DDA," they are misleading you, says Ruth Malkin. 16 ROyAL mAIL: COST CUTTI...
Magazine issue | 1 Jun 2009
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3 strikes and your fire's not out!
...lty of having untidy hair. 11701 Some categories of fee-paid workers are not automatically entitled to pension rights, and discretion can be applied in the case of some categories of part-time employees, the Employment Appeals Tribunal has decided. 11761 An Oxfordshire company has been ordered to pay more than £24,000 at Bicester Magistrates' Court for failing to recover and recycle packaging waste. The company pleaded guilty to 15 offences of failing to register with the Environment Agency as a producer of packaging, and to failing to meet its requirements to recover and recycle packaging was...
Magazine issue | 8 Nov 2007
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How much does it cost to kill someone at work?
... the new rules. 8227 images: istockphoto.com National Minimum Wage increase The National Minimum Wage will rise again from 1 October. For most employees this will mean an increase in the minimum they can be paid from £5.35 to £5.52 an hour, the level recommended previously by the independent Low Pay Commission. 5133 6 workplacelaw WHAT DOES THIS SYMBOL MEAN? Go to ... www.workplacelaw.net enter the four-digit code in the search box and link direct to the latest information forum John Shaw -- 10:06 11-Jun-2007 Share views, comments and experiences or put your questions to other members of ...
Magazine issue | 1 Sep 2007
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No smoking? Employers face the costs of kicking the habit
...e at www. dti.gov.uk/workandfamilies The closing date for responses is 25 May. · The HSE is developing a Corporate Health and Safety Performance Indicator (CHaSPI) for use by large organisations which will be accessible from May 2005. 5434 · Undertakings with more than 150 employees will have to pay attention to the Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations 2004, which introduce a framework for informing and consulting employees. 4453 · New style employment tribunal claim and response forms will be mandatory from April 2005. 5434 · All employer-supported childcare, not just in ...
Magazine issue | 1 Apr 2005
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Smoking ban special
...cal plants in northern Russia and India; or getting some of the cars off the road in Mexico etc. to reduce their exhaust smog, would do more for global CO2 emissions than painting a building or changing lightbulbs. Here's a radical solution -- why not get America to raise taxation on fossil fuel to pay for carbon offsetting? Mark Shuttleworth -- 10:58 25-Apr-2007 m Individual member joined: Sep 2004 Winner Why is it always the jolly old UK to the rescue when many countries in the world do absolutely nothing, and us who have to foot the tax bill for such daft measures as this? I hope you have ...
Magazine issue | 1 Jun 2007
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How will a smoke-free UK affect employers?
...ery van will be covered by the ban if the driver does not own it, but not if he does. This does not apply to a taxi. In May 2005 a taxi driver became the first in the Irish Republic to be prosecuted for violation of anti-smoking laws, after smoking a cigarette in his vehicle. He was instructed to pay €250 to the Irish Cancer Society as well as the €300 costs incurred by the HSE, which brought the prosecution. What about workplaces staffed by volunteers? Under the new law, the word "work" also constitutes voluntary work, so even if a village hall is being used to hold an event that requi...
News | 15 Feb 2006
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Old git, or still work fit?
...to move his van as it was totally blocking our entrance. There was no altercation, no raised voices, just a totally unannounced assault which started and finished in a single second. Do I now stop my security staff from speaking to people? Do I enclose them in suits of armour to protect them? Do we pay the guard for damage and hurt caused - no, the assailant and/or his employer should. This government pursues illogical, poorly thought through `innovations' and this is just yet one more example. Thank goodness they don't follow through on most of their ideas. There you are - that's my prejudices f...
Magazine issue | 1 Feb 2006
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Dealing with bogus claimants
...LE WITH CARE Workplace Law Health and Safety Consultant, Maria Anderson, with the latest information on ensuring safe manual handling within a workplace. that she had no interest in the vacancies and was making the applications only in order to be able to claim compensation. 08 CASE LAW Six-figure payout for worker shot in training; and mental health charity fined after death of support worker. 40 CLINIC Workplace Law members ask the experts for advice on key management issues. Premises, Health and Safety Handbook 2010 Includes information on: n Accessible environments; n BREEAM; n Business ra...
Magazine issue | 1 Mar 2010
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Mug’s game? Excessive risk aversion
...y Mondays; strike action -- an employer's guide; House of Lords reverse Mesothelioma compensation ruling and, TUPE transfers and normal retiring age. Attitudes to the tribunal process workplacelaw 3 4 workplacelaw workplacelaw MAGAZINE Kelly Mansfield T. 01223 431 054 A mug's game? Would you pay a health and safety consultant £200 to produce a 17 page document highlighting the risks to your staff of making a cup of tea? East Hertfordshire Council has, and claims it was money well spent. But were the council taking a sensible precaution or was it a case of health and safety overkill? The s...
Magazine issue | 1 Jul 2006
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"We don't serve wheelchairs"
...to date of studying the CIPD Certificate in Employment Relations Law and Practice with Workplace Law Training. TECHNICAL 28 LEGAL UPDATE In-depth information and guidance on: Carers a need for new discrimination legislation?; Employment Tribunal claims will the numbers keep rising; and Equal pay cases who is a comparator? 18 EFFORTLESS INCLUSION "If we get the products right, then those products will effortlessly or automatically appeal to the widest range of possible users and customers," says BT's Dave Wilson. THE DATA 32 THIS MONTH'S STATISTICS Five pages of key statistics and info...
Magazine issue | 1 Jan 2008
