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15th February 2024
The Claimant, David Miller, was employed by The University of Bristol in 2018 as a professor of Political Sociology. The Employment Tribunal found that the Claimants ‘anti-Zionist’ beliefs qualified as ‘philosophical belief and a protected characteristic’. Furthermore, it was found that the Claimant was subject to direct discrimination due to the university’s decision to dismiss […]
15th February 2024
What’s Happened? The director of a woodworking company has narrowly avoided an immediate spell in prison after he was found guilty of continually exposing his employees to harmful wood dust. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspected the firm’s manufacturing site, which identified significant failings in its measures to control employees’ exposure to wood dust. […]
7th February 2024
What’s Happened? A Hartlepool man has recently been prosecuted after he admitted removing asbestos from a school when he didn’t hold the appropriate licence to do so. It transpires that the contractor also intentionally falsified air clearance paperwork after removing the asbestos-containing materials, and he is known to have carried out similar work several months […]
31st January 2024
A woman fired from £124,000 a year job after rejecting the advances from her boss wins sex harassment employment tribunal claim. Ms Crabtree, a mother of three, was fired from her £124,000 a year position after she rejected advances from her boss. The senior female executive has won £99,214 in compensation for sexual harassment in […]
22nd January 2024
Health and safety in winter weather should be a key consideration for all businesses. Slip and trip accidents increase during the autumn and winter seasons for a number of reasons. There is less daylight; leaves fall onto paths and become wet and slippery; and cold weather spells cause ice and snow to build up on […]
12th January 2024
What’s Happened A roofing company has been recently fined a total of £881,000 after two workers were seriously injured during two separate, but similar incidents. One of the roofing companies’ employees is understood to have fractured his pelvis after falling through a factory roof in Newcastle. He had been replacing a skylight in a corrugated […]
19th December 2023
The employment tribunal has ruled that the Claimant’s claim of direct race discrimination, racial harassment and victimisation was successful in D Pile-Grey v Ministry of Defence. The tribunal has not yet published the amount of damages awarded. Mr Pile-Gray was one of the first Rastafarian guardsmen and had a career in the army stretching over […]
15th December 2023
Fire Compartmentation – What is it? The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (RRFSO) requires all non-domestic buildings to be fire risk assessed by a competent individual. Simply put, compartmentation is the process of dividing a structure into ‘compartments’ for effective risk management. Each compartment is reinforced by using fire-resistant materials and by installing protective […]
6th December 2023
As the festive season approaches, it’s important for businesses to ensure a safe and enjoyable experience for employees and customers alike. Unfortunately, there are common areas where businesses tend to fall short during the Christmas period. In this blog post, we take a look at the top 10 health and safety fails at Christmas…. 1. […]