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4th September 2024
What’s Happened? Two directors of a care home business have recently been fined £125,000 after pleading guilty to a string of fire safety breaches across four different premises. East Sussex Fire and Rescue officers were understood to have visited four care home properties run by the directors. Officers identified 12 separate fire safety issues across […]
28th August 2024
A care assistant who failed to disclose that she was charged with murder has won an unfair dismissal case at the Edinburgh Employment Tribunal. The tribunal found that her employer, Care UK Community Partnerships, failed to properly assess the risk of reputational damage before terminating her employment. In October 2022, Jacqueline Difolco, who worked at […]
14th August 2024
What’s Happened? A builder has recently been given a suspended prison sentence after he put the lives of workers at risk on a construction site in London. This is an interesting case in that it demonstrates the HSE will prosecute companies where they fail to comply with the Law, even when there has not been […]
7th August 2024
What’s Happened? An Ipswich-based property management company and its director have been sentenced following a recent prosecution brought by Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service. The company manages residential premises in Ipswich where it was established that ACM cladding had been installed to the block of flats. A fire risk assessment of the premises had been […]
29th July 2024
What’s Happened? A company and its director have been fined after an employee was struck by an object while manufacturing large steel cable drums for the offshore industry. The employee had been working for the business at its Great Yarmouth site which is involved in metal fabrication. Although the company had manufactured steel drums previously […]
24th July 2024
The claimant (Orwin) began working as an ICT project officer for the East Riding of Yorkshire Council in 2018. In April 2022, Caroline Lacey, then chief executive of the local authority, emailed all employees asking them to add their pronouns and a new image to their email signature relating to its corporate priorities. Having communicated […]
10th July 2024
What’s Happened? Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service has recently prosecuted a Blackpool landlord for his failure to comply with the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, which put the lives and safety of tenants at risk. Fire safety officers from the Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service were understood to have carried out a routine inspection […]
3rd July 2024
What’s Happened Two companies have been fined after a teenage worker was exposed to asbestos during work to an outbuilding of a domestic property in Richmond, North Yorkshire. The 16-year-old had been working for a Joinery and Building company who had been hired by a principal contractor to refurbish a domestic property. The 16-year-old had […]
27th June 2024
A disabled teacher who received a four-day “career-changing ultimatum” during a forced school transfer has been awarded £61k by an employment tribunal. Allison Shearer, an English support teacher for Clydesdale Support Base in Carluke, refused to move to Kear Secondary School due to extreme anxiety believing it was inevitable that she would experience assault there […]