Feature Articles

The purchase of a business as a going concern is relatively common, and the processes to follow are for the most part settled. In nearly all cases, the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employees) Regulations 2006 (“TUPE”) apply to the transfer of the employees’ contracts, rights and service over to the new employer/owner, who must honour these rights as though they were the ones to give them in the first place.

As cases of monkeypox begin to rise in the UK, there has been speculation that this will become the new coronavirus. However, this is far from the truth. Monkeypox is a rare viral infection, which is generally mild and self-limiting, and poses a very low threat to the wider public. It is not easily transmissible, full recovery is expected and treatment is available through the smallpox vaccine. This being said, it is still natural for employers to be prepared for what steps they need to take to manage this outbreak.

In this feature, Caroline Raine discusses the second amendment of Annex VIII of CLP (poison centres) which takes into account some of the workability issues.

The Croner-i chemicals database contains over 110,000 chemicals records which are collated into single, comprehensive reference chemical charts. It is continually reviewed and frequently updated.

Caroline Raine discusses the forthcoming changes to safety data sheets following the publication of the REACH Annex II regulations (2020/878). The regulations were published in July and will require all safety data sheets to be updated by the end of December 2022. It will apply from 1 January 2021.

In this feature Caroline Raine gives us an overview of the European Commission and European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) Chemical Strategy for Sustainability and lets us know what we should be expecting.

As your business looks beyond the pandemic, what does post-Covid-19 branding look like? Have the components of a brand shifted? Are consumers looking to the brands they trust to evolve? Dave Howell reports.