An Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) case has considered whether an employer should have postponed a disciplinary hearing. This was to allow the employee to bring
Hundreds of thousands of work-related injuries and instances of ill health are reported every year. The employers responsible can face unlimited fines and even prison
Blog In order to save some money, employers may be tempted to download a free contract of employment or attempt to draft one themselves by
One week has seen three separate courts hand out heavy fines after unsafe work at height. This includes: Survey Roofing Group was ordered to pay
Your employee has just informed you that she is pregnant. You will have a million questions running through your head. It’s important that, at each
A boat manufacturer has been fined after an employee suffered chemical burns while using a solvent to clean a boat. The worker was using a
An employee has announced that his wife is having a baby. He has only been working for the organisation for a couple of months. Is
A packaging company has been fined after a worker lost three fingers in a cutting machine. The employee was cleaning the hot blade of a
A fencing manufacturer has been fined after a worker suffered serious injury. The employee had been manually packing fencing panels into shipping containers when some
Whether time spent by a worker sleeping on shift counts as working time for the purposes of calculating whether they have been paid at least
