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When an employee is off sick during their notice period they remain entitled to full notice pay for the statutory notice period. Only in certain circumstances is it possible to pay only statutory sick pay for any such absence…
Read MoreNew technology is often hailed as the UK’s economic saviour. But have we appreciated AI’s potential for radically altering workplace relationships and impacting our mental health?
Read MoreThe government is to consider using “gender-neutral language” in apprenticeship standards to ensure women are not deterred from training for a career in traditionally male-dominated occupations.
Read MoreA farmer has been fined following a worker’s fatal fall through the fragile roof of a milking shed on the farm.
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreAll 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.
Read MoreUK employers are increasingly likely to hire agency workers amid continuing falls in confidence in the economy, according to the research published today.
Read MoreA West Sussex concrete wall blocks company was sentenced after a worker’s hand was crushed in an unguarded machine.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreFrom 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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