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Plans to require landlords to make disability alterations
The Government plans to require landlords and managers of residential premises to make disability-related alterations to common parts of residential premises.The Government's Discrimination Law Review was launched in February 2005 to fulfil its 2005 manifesto pledge to modernise and simplify equality legislation. Its f...
News | 12 Sep 2008
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Plans to require landlords to make disability alterations
Hi Arthur, I agree, and it's a lacuna in the law that needs to be changed. In 2005, the DDA intoduced new landlord duties and they took effect in 2006. The new duties are to make reasonable adjustments to policies, practices and procedures and to provide auxiliary aids and services for people who are tenants, or potential tenants – to make it easier for th...
Comment | 19 Sep 2008
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Plans to require landlords to make disability alterations
I carry out a lot of HMO Fre Risk Assessments and landlords do not make their properties disabled accessable therefore I feel they are ignoring the needs of this section of the community. I can't understand why the tenant would have to pay for alterations or maintenance. Surely the disability Discrimination Act insists that access should be for all?
Comment | 18 Sep 2008
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Disability access: is it becoming clear yet?
...he obstacles that existed and moving to improve accessibility and equality of opportunity in the way they run their business and manage their buildings, they will have succeeded. Unfortunately, despite knowing the issues, some employers and service providers seemed to think they could start to make plans in October 2004, rather than having them completed by that date. They are the ones who now have real problems because making access inherent to what you do as a company takes time. They have made themselves vulnerable to challenge because they now have no time to deal with it. Disabled people and t...
Magazine issue | 1 Sep 2005
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Face facts: how much do you really know about disability legislation?
...and further details would be announced this autumn'. It missed the deadline. In June 2004, Baroness Scotland commented that the Government is still aiming to publish a draft Bill before the end of the current parliamentary session in October 2004. A recent article in The Independent speculates that plans to introduce a corporate manslaughter law may have been repeatedly delayed because ministers fear that legislation could backfire on them. The newspaper quotes one Whitehall source as saying that `John Reid or even Gordon Brown could be liable if someone died in hospital as a result of funding deci...
Magazine issue | 1 Oct 2004
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It’s a WRAP
workplacelaw The exclusive magazine for premium members of the Workplace Law Network inside this issue NOV/DEC 2011 Issue 63 Changing times David Sharp, MD of Workplace Law, outlines exciting new plans. Page 22 Rules of RiddOR Latest guidance on reporting of injuries and ill health at work. Page 34 Comment: How green is our government? asks Alison Doig, Christian Aid. Page 9 Legal update: Employment Tribunal reform a step too far? Page 16 Partied out Not every workplace event is incidentfre...
Magazine issue | 2 Nov 2011
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CDM special
...derway, the project teams are inevitably dominated by the designers and contractors. Even when an FM is on board, it can be hard to make his or her presence felt once the project juggernaut gets rolling. "An FM can feel overawed if they are working on a massive project and find it hard to challenge plans even when they see problems ahead. They may be put under pressure by a project team which wants to roll on regardless," says Greenfield. workplacelaw 15 "An FM can feel overawed if they are working on a massive project and find it hard to challenge plans even when they see problems ahead". Desig...
Magazine issue | 1 Mar 2007
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What is reasonable adjustment?
workplacelaw know-how to manage your workplace DECEMBER 2006/JANUARY 2007 ISSUE 23 Reasonable? Two years on from the implementation of DDA Part III, have attitudes to accessibility improved at all? Highly commended: PPA Magazine of the Year 2005 & 2006 -- interactive business and professional Highly commended: AOP Onli...
Magazine issue | 1 Dec 2006
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London’s burning, where’s the engine?
...es were in what address these concerns so the firefighters can go back to work." had been classified as category C areas, urban domestic houses. Merseyside is not the only Authority to be left facing strike action, or This led fire brigades to start to the threat of it, because of new modernisation plans. For example, relocate resources away from Cleveland fire crews also recently considered striking over proposals business areas to domestic areas which would see numbers of fire fighters and equipment reduced. instead. In the past where a business could have relied on a strategy", as the facts thes...
Magazine issue | 1 Oct 2006
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Business as usual? London bomb blasts
...he obstacles that existed and moving to improve accessibility and equality of opportunity in the way they run their business and manage their buildings, they will have succeeded. Unfortunately, despite knowing the issues, some employers and service providers seemed to think they could start to make plans in October 2004, rather than having them completed by that date. They are the ones who now have real problems because making access inherent to what you do as a company takes time. They have made themselves vulnerable to challenge because they now have no time to deal with it. Disabled people and t...
Magazine issue | 1 Sep 2005
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No smoking? Employers face the costs of kicking the habit
...ether promises made by the Government in the Queen's Speech 2004 will be followed through. 5434 · The Companies (Audit, Investigations and Community Enterprise) Act 2004 will be implemented on 6 April. 5481 25th Working mothers are to be offered an extra three months' paid maternity leave under plans in a consultation published in February by Trade 15th Employers will no longer be allowed to sack someone because they have been summoned for jury service. A change in the law will come into effect on 6 April, Constitutional Affairs Secretary Lord Falconer has announced. The consultation closes on...
Magazine issue | 1 Apr 2005
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Playing with numbers: TUPE special issue
...es Russell www.charlesrussell.co.uk DTI: TUPE www.dti.gov.uk/er/individual/tupe-pl699a Incorporated Council of Law Reporting www.lawreports.co.uk ISS www.issworld.com Pinsent Masons www.pinsentmasons.com Workplace Law Group www.workplacelaw.net DTI consultation on TUPE The Government has announced plans to take forward the amendments to TUPE. David Green of Charles Russell advises that the reforms will: · Introduce more comprehensive coverage of TUPE in respect of operations involving the contracting-out of services. The amended Regulations will not, however, go so far as to include `high level p...
Magazine issue | 1 Mar 2005
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Serviced Offices
The DDA requires reasonable steps to be taken by a service provider or employer to avoid discriminating against disabled people. If your business is not providing a service to the public, your responsibility is only to take reasonable steps to meet needs from your employees. If you currently have no disabled employees, you do not nec...
Comment | 24 May 2005
