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3rd January 2017
Car Giant Volvo has recently been prosecuted £900,000, ordered it to pay costs of £5,820 after an employee was seriously injured following a fall from stepladders at their Truck and Bus Depot in Enfield, North London. The technician was servicing a lorry owned by delivery firm DHL when he identified that the access rope to […]
21st November 2016
In a staggering case which involved a company being served a record 10 Improvement Notices following a HSE visit, a judge in Swansea has told a company’s director and three managers that their company was “a ticking time bomb in relation to the health and safety employees”. The defendants were handed down suspended jail sentences […]
18th November 2016
A packaging company has been fined £70,000 with a further £53,000 in costs after a worker’s thumb was severed due to the company’s failure to take adequate measures to prevent access to dangerous parts of machinery. In what is a very common accident with machinery of this nature, the Court heard how an employee reached […]
31st October 2016
After decades of relatively stable and predictable fines, the tide is now rising rapidly following the introduction of the sentencing guidelines in February this year, with the value of fines imposed by the HSE without doubt on the rise. The total value of fines imposed has risen by 43 per cent compared to the same […]
31st October 2016
The number of company directors who have been prosecuted for health and safety offences has trebled in a year, according to recent research using data from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). The research shows that the number of company directors and managers prosecuted by the HSE in the year to 31 March 2016 was […]
6th July 2016
It is estimated that two thirds of UK occupational safety and health regulations introduced between 1997 and 2009 originated in the EU. This statistic alone displays the weight of influence the European Union has on UK law in this field. Industry experts believe that despite ‘Brexit’, it is unlikely there will be wholesale changes to […]
29th June 2016
The Supreme Court has held that two Nigerian employees did not suffer direct or indirect race discrimination when their employers treated them poorly due to their status as vulnerable domestic migrant workers. Under the Equality Act 2010, direct race discrimination occurs where an employer treats an employee less favourably than it treats or would treat […]
29th June 2016
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has confirmed that the ACAS Code of Practice on Disciplinary and Grievance Procedures only applies to dismissals where there is ‘culpable conduct’. This conduct could be in the form of misconduct or poor performance. The impact of the decision is that where poor performance is due to illness, the Code […]
29th June 2016
On 20th June 2016 the House of Commons Justice Committee published a report on the impact of the changes to fees in the Employment Tribunal and other courts. The conclusion of the report is that the principle of litigants contributing to the costs of operating courts and tribunals is not objectionable. However, the introduction of […]