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TUC issues occupational cancer warning
The TUC has called for companies that risk employees’ health by exposing them to cancer-causing chemicals to be prosecuted under UK safety laws. The call comes alongside the launch of TUC’s campaign to raise awareness of workplace chemicals which can cause illness later in life. As part of this cam...
News | 24 Nov 2008
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The burning issue
...sons Solicitors (26) Railtrack (14) Reynolds Porter Chamberlain (23) RF Howe and Sons (Engineers) Ltd (28) RIBA (6) Royal Mail (34) Shepherd + Wedderburn (27) Six Continents Retail Limited (25) Surestart BHT (31) Telewest (25) Thames Trains (14, 29) The Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (23) TUC (19, 23) Transco (14, 28, 29) What do you think? Please comment on or argue with anything you read in Workplace Law Magazine Letters should be addressed to The Editor at Workplace Law Magazine, Second Floor Daedalus House, Station Road, Cambridge CB1 2RE Fax: 0870 777 8882 Email: kelly.mansfield@...
Magazine issue | 1 Nov 2005
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Same old: has health and safety really changed after the Young review?
... own actions, with the spectre of lawyers only too willing to pounce with a claim for damages on the slightest pretext. "We simply cannot go on like this. That's why I asked Lord Young to do this review and put some common sense back into health and safety. And that's exactly what he has done." The TUC said the report was a "grave disappointment", adding "the report contains not a single proposal that will reduce the high levels of workplace death, injuries and illness". For a full analysis of the Review, turn to p.18. 30840 NEWS IN BRIEf Time saving A new online risk assessment tool, which take...
Magazine issue | 1 Nov 2010
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Changes to Workplace Law Magazine
...o let staff go did not seek legal or HR advice beforehand. Under employment law, where more than 100 employees are made redundant, workers must be consulted at least 90 days in advance. 22332 Apprentice rise The minimum weekly pay rate for apprenticeships has been increased from £80 to £95. Said TUC General Secretary, Brendan Barber: "The next move must be to protect apprentices with the minimum wage, so that employers cannot exploit young trainees by ignoring the minimum pay rate." 22380 Sexism and the city The Treasury committee is calling for evidence on the role of women in major UK finan...
Magazine issue | 1 Sep 2009
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2009: new beginnings
...sed changes will irrevocably change the way in which agency staff are used. A recent CBI survey suggests that 57% of employers anticipate reducing the use of agency labour once the Regulations are in force. Now that the directive has been ratified at EU level after agreement was reached between the TUC and CBI on how the subject should be handled from a UK perspective, the Agency Workers Commission has been established by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC). This initiative involves representatives from recruitment agencies, employers, the British Chambers of Commerce, the Chartere...
Magazine issue | 8 Dec 2008
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The year of living dangerously
... Network Rail 8,11,14, 25 Pinsent Masons 24 P&O 8 Ramada Jarvis 24 Reed Business Information Ltd 21 RIBA 6 Rover 25 Security Industry Authority 13 Shepherd + Wedderburn 25 Six Continents Retail Ltd 25 St Catherine's Foundation 31 Tarlo Lyons 26 The Pub Estate Co Ltd 25 Toys `R' Us 25 Transco 11, 25 TUC 8, 9,19 Visor Consultants Limited 15 Woolwich Building Society 27 Zurich 34 If you want to smoke in your own home and simply risk your health and life and that of your family it's your business - but why should you be allowed to impose this risk on others who need to work in the same workplace - o...
Magazine issue | 1 Dec 2005
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Religious beliefs: should employers cater for all faiths?
..., 26 Optyma Security Services 27 Pinsent Masons 29 Royal National Institute for the Deaf 20 Safety Management and Monitoring Services Ltd 18 Scottish Environment Protection Agency 14 Scottish Executive 6 Shepherd + Wedderburn 8, 27 South Wales Police Authority 27 Steelecase 7 Thames Laboratories 30 TUC 20, 24 UKAS 30 Virgin Trains 8 WBB Devon Clays 8 Wyse Consultancy 8 John will be awarded this month's Steelcase Please Chair. workplacelaw 7 istockphoto.com Getty images which of these is a istockphoto.com religious belief? Kelly Mansfield reports Think the answer is obvious? Think again! An...
Magazine issue | 1 May 2005
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No smoking? Employers face the costs of kicking the habit
...ing expected to succeed 2% 19% sources of further information ASH www.ash.org.uk British Medical Journal www.bmj.bmjjournals.com FOREST www.forest-on-smoking.org.uk HSE: Passive smoking http://www.hse.gov.uk/hthdir/noframes/smoking QUIT www.quit.org.uk Smoke Free Systems www.smokefreesystems.com TUC: Special report passive smoking at work www.tuc.org.uk/h_and_s/tuc-6529-f0.cfm World Health Organisation www.who.int 12 workplacelaw workplacelaw 13 code of N conduct The Code of Practice for Commercial Leases has had little impact, and the Government is likely to follow through threats t...
Magazine issue | 1 Apr 2005
