Waste plant fined £500k over fatal wheeled loader crush
A Northumberland-based waste and recycling company has been fined £500,000 after a site labourer was struck and killed by a wheeled front-loading shovel.
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Energy giant fined £230,000 for unfairly dismissing employee that ‘HR didn’t know how to deal with’
All businesses, however large or small, should be implementing robust and fair disciplinary & grievance processes in order that issues and conflicts arising in the workplace can reach an early resolution.
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Reliance on agency workers increases as confidence in economy drops
UK employers are increasingly likely to hire agency workers amid continuing falls in confidence in the economy, according to the research published today.
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Unguarded machine trapped worker’s hand
A West Sussex concrete wall blocks company was sentenced after a worker’s hand was crushed in an unguarded machine.
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HSE’s suite of RIDDOR Forms to be refreshed
The reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013 (RIDDOR) requires employers, the self-employed and people in control of work premises (the Responsible Person) to report certain serious workplace accidents, occupational diseases and specified dangerous occurrences.
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Award limits and amounts payable under employment legislation
From 6 April 2019, under the Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2019 (SI 2019/324), a number of limits applying to tribunal awards and other amounts payable under employment legislation will increase.
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Change in Enforcement Expectation for Mild Steel Welding Fume
The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) has issued a safety alert based upon new scientific evidence from the International Agency for Research on Cancer, that exposure to mild steel welding fume can cause lung cancer and possibly kidney cancer in humans.
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Ignorance is not bliss
EAT finds an employer in breach of its duty to make reasonable adjustments and cannot rely on its own inaction and any resulting ignorance of the circumstances as a defence.
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HMRC should stop its “unreasonable” investigations
HM Revenue and Customs should stop its “unreasonable” investigations into breaches of regulations surrounding the national minimum wage according to the British Retail Consortium (BRC).
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