A maximum jail sentence shows just how much company bosses can be personally held to account for safety failings. And as we’ve seen over the
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Employers cannot discriminate on the basis of the ‘protected characteristics’ specified in the Equality Act 2010. These protected characteristics are age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage
What does 2017 hold in store for employers and HR professionals? We look at five key laws that will come into effect. 1 Changes to
We look at four key cases that the employment tribunals and courts will be considering in 2017 and which employers and HR professionals need to
Unlike many other countries around the world, there are no specific statutory rights for workers to take leave for compassionate or bereavement reasons in the
Do you know the process to follow to get an employee’s medical report? Do you know what to do if the employee doesn’t give consent?
A tractor-driving farmworker who ran over a boy has been jailed. It is thought the driver drank some 13 pints of beer the night before
Blog Issuing payslips is normally a routine process and you may not give a lot of thought to the legislation behind it all. In fact,
As 2016 draws to a close, we reflect on some prominent tribunals and cases brought before courts, the new laws introduced and companies put under
