Recent high profile fines on charities have highlighted the need for organisations to ensure they are complying with their obligations under the Data Protection Act
Nick Wilson, Director of Health & Safety Services at Ellis Whittam, gives an overview of an employer’s general duties toward protecting the health, safety and
You can’t predict when someone will arrive at your doorstep to do a Health & Safety inspection. Inspectors have the right to enter your premises
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
BLOG Put a stop to fake sickness absences! Employers face many challenges when dealing with sickness absences. It gets much more difficult when you face
Ministers have ordered a crackdown on employers in the so-called gig economy who use a high number of self-employed or agency workers amid concerns about
It has not been a good few days for retailers. Firstly, an Employment Tribunal gives the green light to thousands of women who work at
G4S was ordered to pay £1.8 million for failing to protect workers from the risk of Legionnaires’ disease, a serious respiratory illness caused by airborne
Do you regularly work outside normal working hours? Chances are that you do. Developments in technology mean we are more connected and easily contacted than
A care home business has been convicted of a health and safety charge following the death of an 80 year old resident, when a wardrobe fell
