September 18th, 2014
As the new school year begins, HSE is reminding school leaders to strike the right balance in their approach to health and safety risks. Some of the cases ruled on...
September 15th, 2014
A scheme designed to shift the cost of regulating workplace health and safety from the public purse to businesses who break the law has proven effective and should stay, an...
September 10th, 2014
Businesses that commission work frequently assume that they will own the intellectual property rights, such as copyright and design right, in that work. That assumption is often incorrect, leaving the...
September 5th, 2014
It is common for commercial contracts to include an ‘Entire Agreement’ clause, which says that the parties have agreed only what is expressly included in the contract. If there is...
September 1st, 2014
It has now been announced that the Government’s new Health and Work Service in England and Wales will be delivered by Health Management Limited. The scheme will be fully implemented...
August 25th, 2014
Acas has issued new guidance on dress codes and appearance in the workplace. The guidance, whilst not providing employers with any specific solutions, offers issues for consideration with areas of...
August 20th, 2014
New rules come into force on 1st October 2014 which will enable fathers to be and partners of pregnant women to take time off for antenatal appointments. Under the current...
July 20th, 2014
Approximately one in four road casualties in this country involve a driver at-work, The HSE have revised their guidance on managing work-related road safety. Their ‘Driving at Work: managing work-related...
June 23rd, 2014
The new ACAS “Early Conciliation” (EC) scheme is now compulsory for almost all new potential tribunal claims. A worker cannot make a claim to an employment tribunal unless they have...
June 20th, 2014
If you take your car to a garage for repair, the garage can refuse to hand over the car until its bill has been paid. This is because there is...