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John Lewis Fined £1.2m after worker injured in distribution centre

5th February 2025

John Lewis PLC Fined £1,200,000 After Worker Suffered Broken Hip

An agency worker fell from a small set of stairs above a conveyor at a John Lewis distribution centre in Milton Keynes in February 2022.  The injuries sustained included a broken hip which required extensive surgery and resulted in long-term complications for the individual.  Upon investigation by the local council’s environmental health department, it was […]

Morrisons Equal Pay Dispute

30th January 2025

Morrisons Shop Workers Progress With Equal Pay Claim

UK supermarket chain Morrisons is facing an equal pay claim involving over 7,500 of its shop workers.  The Claimants, who are predominantly female, will have to argue that their roles are equal in terms of value to the work performed by the predominantly male, higher-paid employees in Morrisons’ distribution centres. The Claimants have been successful […]

Woodworking machinery

16th January 2025

Company Fined After Worker Loses 3 Fingers

What’s Happened? A company has recently been fined after an employee had three fingers severed by a panel saw at work. The company that manufactures timber frame structures for the construction industry. The employee was operating a panel saw and asked to cut down the thickness of a length of timber – known as a […]

Fitting solar panels to a roof

8th January 2025

Company Fined After Employee Falls From Height

What’s Happened A company has recently been fined £120,000 after an employee broke his leg while working on a property in Salisbury. The man, who was 23 at the time, fell from the roof of a house whilst installing solar panels for a renewables company. He had been adjusting a solar panel when he slid […]

Goldman Sachs HQ in New York

18th December 2024

Sex Discrimination Ruling Against Goldman Sachs

A former vice-president of Goldman Sachs’ London compliance team has won a sex discrimination claim after being dismissed following his paternity leave. Jon Reeves, who joined the bank in 2007, was let go in September 2022 after taking six months of paternity leave from November 2021 to May 2022. Sachs argued the decision was based […]

Smoke Alarm

16th December 2024

Rogue Landlord Fined For Fire Safety Breaches

What’s Happened? A rogue landlord was recently prosecuted after admitting to turning a three-bedroom bungalow in Surrey into a 15-room unlicensed House of Multiple Occupation (HMO). Runnymede Borough Council prosecuted the landlord after anonymous tip-offs that the bungalow was being used illegally as an unlicenced HMO. The key breaches were as follows: Operating a licensable […]

Christmas Health & Safety Fails

11th December 2024

Top 10 Christmas Health And Safety Fails

‘Tis the season to be jolly, but sometimes our enthusiasm for the holidays can lead to some hilarious (and potentially dangerous) health and safety mishaps. As the provider of your health and safety services, we’ve compiled a list of the top 10 Christmas health and safety fails to give you a good laugh – and […]