New workers’ watchdog to take over responsibility for tackling modern slavery, enforcing minimum wage, and more One-stop shop will improve enforcement and ensure employees…
New workers’ watchdog to take over responsibility for tackling modern slavery, enforcing minimum wage, and more One-stop shop will improve enforcement and ensure employees…
Coronavirus (COVID-19) can cause symptoms for some people that can last weeks or months after the infection has gone. This is now widely known…
John Taylor Bell Foundry (Loughborough) Ltd was sentenced for safety breaches after workers were exposed to harmful lead dust during the repair and refurbishment…
BAM Nuttall Limited has been fined after an employee was run over by a dumper vehicle. Inverness Sheriff Court heard that on 28 October…
Workplace expert, Acas, has published new analysis today which estimates that workplace conflict costs UK employers £28.5 billion every year, an average of just…
Southend High School for Boys Academy Trust has been sentenced after a worker fell from a ladder. Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court heard how, on 19…
Health and safety laws and regulations are sometimes presented as a reason why certain play and leisure activities, undertaken by children and young people,…
The Supreme Court has unanimously held that Uber drivers are “workers” for the purposes of the Employment Rights Act 1996, the Working Time Regulations…
It is a legal requirement of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order that fire safety precautions are put in place to prevent fire and…
The HSE has announced that it plans to visit manufacturing businesses during May – Sep 2021 that are using welding (of any type) or…