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Employment
- Supporting Disabled Employees and Employees with Long-Term Health Conditions in Work
17/01/2023
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is keen to encourage employers to support disabled employees throughout their employment, removing obstacles that prevent certain duties being undertaken and helping people remain and thrive within their roles... - Workplace Facilities: An Employer’s Guide
20/10/2022
Health and safety law requires employers to provide certain welfare facilities, together with a working environment that is safe and healthy for all employees, including those with disabilities... - Updated Guidance on Managing Health and Safety for New and Expectant Mothers at Work
22/07/2022
Employers have a duty to manage the health and safety of new mothers and pregnant employees... - An Employers’ Guide to Safeguarding Mental Health at Work
18/01/2022
When some workplaces reopened in 2021, following the UK Government’s previous advice to work from home, the Mental Health Foundation warned of the phenomenon known as ‘returnism’, the impact on mental health of going back to the working practices that people had been used to before the pandemic hit... - Can an Employer Make COVID Vaccinations Compulsory?
23/07/2021
When it was recently announced that it would be compulsory for those working in care homes in England to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 from October 2021, questions naturally arose around whether employers in other sectors could legally enforce the same requirement... - A Guide to Keeping Workplaces Safe as the Roadmap out of Lockdown Gets Underway
24/04/2021
On 22 February 2021, the government announced a four-step roadmap out of lockdown, gradually easing restrictions and setting out a route back to a more normal way of living and working over four steps... - Working From Home: A Guide for Employers
25/01/2021
If you are an employer with staff working from home, you may yourself be finding the whole situation quite a test... - Back to Work: Guidance on Working Safely During the Pandemic
27/07/2020
As the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown measures gradually start to ease, the government is keen to see businesses returning to work wherever possible... - Taking Care of New and Expectant Mothers at Work
19/07/2019
The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 (MHSW), the Workplace (Health, Safety & Welfare) Regulations 1992 and the Equality Act 2010 all set out how employers are required to protect the health and safety of new and expectant mothers at work... - The Equality Act and Accessibility in Commercial Premises
18/04/2018
The law dictates that anyone who visits or works in commercial premises must be able to access those premises and the services provided by the occupier without barriers... - Important Health & Safety Considerations for Employers Taking on Temporary Workers this Festive Season
17/10/2016
At this time of year, with the festive season on the near horizon, it is fairly common for a business to take on temporary staff to cover increased workloads and additional leave requests... - New to the job
09/06/2011
Workers are as likely to have an accident in the first six months at a workplace as during the whole of the rest of their working life ...