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An accident occurred in the early hours, at around 6.15 am, on a busy A road which resulted in two people being injured as a result.
Please find a quick summary of the changes to employment Law which came into effect 1st October 2014:
In the words of House Stark, ‘Winter is coming!’ Prolonged hours of darkness, rain, fog, ice and snow will soon be a depressingly familiar aspect of our days. Driving in such conditions can be daunting so here is a guide to facing the worst of Blighty’s weather safely.
To you seatbelt nay-Sayers please consider the following fact: ‘A crash at 45mph without a seatbelt has the same impact on the human body as falling from a seventh floor window!’
Having a Will is essential but particularly for those couples who currently live together as partners but are unmarried.
A recycling firm has been investigated by the Health and Safety Executive after one of its employees became trapped in a glass sorting machine.
Around about now, some parents-to-be will be thinking ahead to next April. In less than nine months’ time babies will start to be born to mothers, fathers and partners or will be placed with adopters who are entitled to a new form of shared parental leave.
The key date is 5th April 2015; babies born or placed through adoption on or after then will trigger rights for their parents to combine and divide their individual leave entitlements.
A road marking company has been successfully prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive for breaching work equipment regulations and was fined £2,000 and ordered to pay £1,123 in costs.
There has been a significant drop in the number of claims after employment trubunal fees were introduced in July 2013.
Hall v Xerox UK
Fixed term workers have their own branch of protection against discrimination. It’s there to ensure that these workers, whose contracts are set to end on a particular date, are not (without justification) treated less favourably than permanent staff.
But, as Hall v Xerox UK illustrated, differences in treatment are sometimes