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Health & Safety v Common Sense
In a widely reported case a bus driver has been sacked for "eating a grape” whilst sat in ths cab of his stationary bus. The matter si still making its way through the internal appeals procedure of the bus company, and the facts may have been distorted in the media reporting - but it does...
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HEALTH AND SAFETY V COMMON SENSE
In a widely reported case a bus driver has been sacked for "eating a grape” whilst sat in the cab of his stationary bus. The matter is still making its way through the internal appeals procedure of the bus company, and the facts may have been distorted in the media reporting - but it does...
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Health & Safety - not to be ignored.
A recent case has highlighted the obligations on businesses and the risk of acting on proper advice. Pontins Limited (now in administration) has just been sentenced for two offences of infringing the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 by failing in their duty to protect persons and...
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Can we just have a chat…?
In the fuss that followed from a venture capitalist's proposal to destroy Unfair Dismissal - a proposal which was instantly dismissed by a government spokesman who said "it is unlikely we would go further on unfair dismissal” (reports the BBC) - a more sensible proposal was drowned...
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Gladys takes the Clock
Let's get the name thing out of the way first of all. The RBS quiz in aid of Bury and Rochdale Hospices demands team names and as one of the Clough & Willis teams was Shefali, Paul, Tim and Chris we decided Gladys and the Pips would be our battle-cry. Scandalously, we were sabotaged...
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