The End of EU Law in the UK?
The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (‘the Bill’), is part of the Government’s commitment to put the UK statute book on a more sustainable footing. This Bill proposes a complete overhaul of retained EU employment law by 31st December 2023, with the option to extend this period until June 2026; but excluding any laws in Northern […]
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Time to consider some New Year’s resolutions! The following case, which has been published by the HSE, might help you focus on some New Year’s resolutions. Management Fails to Implement Safe Systems of Work to Ensure Safe Machinery A food production company has been fined £858,000 after an employee had his arm amputated after becoming entangled in an […]
FLEXIBLE WORKING CHANGES
The Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Bill was introduced on 15th June 2022 by Labour MP Yasmin Qureshi as a Private Member’s Bill. The Government said on 5th December 2022 it would take forward plans to remove the 26 week qualifying period before employees can request flexible working and the requirement for employees to set out how their flexible […]
Redundancy (Pregnancy and Family Leave) Bill
An investigation in 2017 by the Equality and Human Rights Commission found that 54,000 mothers each year faced discrimination at work as a result of taking maternity leave. In response, the Redundancy (Pregnancy and Family Leave) Bill has been put forward which will afford greater redundancy protection to pregnant employees and new parents returning from shared […]
AUTUMN BUDGET
Jeremy Hunt – the Chancellor of the Exchequer – has unveiled the contents of his Autumn Statement in the House of Commons. Aimed at addressing the nation’s finances, the Chancellor has revealed tax rises and spending cuts worth billions of pounds! The below summary is an extract from the BBC News website: Taxation and wagesUK national living wage […]
ARE YOU WORLD CUP READY?
All English and Welsh fans and those from other nations, involved or not, will be eagerly awaiting the onset of ‘the greatest football show on earth’ and once again we have the quadrennial quandary – what do we do with those employees whose desire to watch the games impacts on their requirement to attend work? […]
SENTIENT WEBINAR
CONDUCTING WORKPLACE INVESTIGATIONS 17TH NOVEMBER 2022
World Mental Health Day
Today, 10th October is World Mental Health Day and the theme this year is ‘Make mental health and wellbeing for all a global priority’. Sadly, mental health problems are on the increase in society, and this inevitably impacts on the workplace. Mental health is now the leading cause of sickness absence. It is estimated that in […]
Lock-Out/Tag-Out (LO/TO)
Last month, a company in Shropshire was fined £115,000 after a worker’s hand was cut off in a machine. The 59 year-old employee, who had worked as an Engineering Manager at the company for 18 months, was repairing a box making machine, when his hand was drawn into a chain drive and cut off at […]
Changes to Right to Work Checks for Employers
All employers should be aware there is a requirement to ensure they check that any applicant for work has the legal right to work in the UK BEFORE they commence employment.There are two routes for checking a candidate’s right to work (RTW):A manual check – checking the applicants document(s) against the Home Office’s lists of […]
