A health and safety warning has been given out to farmers regarding telehandlers. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said more cases have been occurring in which telehandler buckets have h ...

An investigation is to be carried out to assess the impact of the national minimum wage. The Low Pay Commission announced it wants to know how this aspect of employment law is affecting both ...

A politician is to spend time with smaller firms to learn about issues that affect them. Mark Prisk, business and enterprise minister, started the Week in Small Business scheme by taking a da ...

A carpentry firm has been fined £3,000 after a breach of health and safety regulations caused a worker to lose a finger. David Bell lost the index finger on his right hand, broke the mid ...

Changes are needed to employment law to allow for mentally ill people, a solicitor has said. Writing for the Guardian, Kiran Daurka gave the example of a client who was offered a job by an in ...

Health and safety breaches have caused a building firm to be fined £6,600. Alexson Homes of Ashmore Park in Wolverhampton pleaded guilty at Stafford Magistrates Court after the Health an ...

A review of employment law for freelancers has been welcomed by an industry expert. John Brazier, managing director of freelancers' association PCG, said he was pleased with the coalition gov ...

Carbon footprint management could be affected by uncertainty over costs, as an expert has highlighted problems with European permits. Economy campaigner at Friends of the Earth Simon Bullock ...

Ignoring warnings over health and safety has led to a developer in Oldham being fined. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) issued two formal notices to Mahmood Khokhar over a pit that had b ...

A health and safety breach that led to the death of a worker in Coleshill has resulted in a fine for the company concerned. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) revealed brick manufacturing ...

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has fined two Gloucestershire companies involved in an accident which saw a worker suffer head injuries. Woodgate Sawmills Limited and Stanley John Frede ...

Employment law does not mean businesses have to tolerate casual absences and not doing so can help bring down non-genuine sick day numbers, it has been suggested. According to Sue Hayday, sen ...

An accident that left one worker with broken bones and a lost finger has resulted in a £26,000 fine for the Ashton-under-Lyme factory involved. The facility, owned by ADA Machining Servi ...

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has said that employment law recommendations in a report by the Confederation for British Industry (CBI) are unfair. Released yesterday (June 21st), the Making ...

A neglect of health and safety rules which led to one worker having his leg amputated following a near-fatal accident has resulted in a fine for the company responsible. The Health and Safety ...

Health and safety in the agricultural industry is to be promoted by a new face after Sandy Blair was promoted to a key role in the sector. The board member for the Health and Safety Executive ...

The government's announcement that the national minimum wage is to be increased from the current rate has been praised by one industry group. According to the Trades Union Congress (TUC), the ...

A health and safety event has seen praise for the efforts of the UK's quarry industry in reducing the number of deaths and injuries among its workforce. Judith Hackitt, chair of the Health an ...

The government has been advised to bring in a raft of new employment law measures to ensure the jobs market recovers. In a report entitled Making Britain the Place to Work, the Confederation ...

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has fined a man from Hertfordshire for carrying out gas fitting work without being registered.