Directors who recklessly put workers’ pensions at risk will face sentences of up to seven years, or unlimited fines, under new plans announced by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
Published to coincide with Time to Talk Day 2019, a survey from the Institute of Directors (IoD) reveals that workplace pressure is seen as a major contributing factor to mental health issues among business leaders.
More than three-quarters (76%) of police officers in frontline roles who responded to a survey in which 18,000 officers of all ranks took part said that they are often or always single-crewed.
As one of its conditions for supporting the withdrawal agreement, the Labour Party is reportedly asking the Government to guarantee that the numerous EU laws protecting workers are maintained in UK law after Brexit.
Local authorities should be legally bound to make sure that their homecare providers pay staff for every hour they work, a leading trade union has argued.
A question first raised in the Spanish courts by a trade union has reached the EU’s Court of Justice (CJEU) which asked one of its senior lawyers to review the case.
A system must be devised to make sure that people in senior, board-level, management roles in the NHS have the skills necessary to perform that function.
Treating someone unfairly because of age is against the law (the Equality Act 2010), apart from in very limited circumstances, as age is one of the nine special areas of life guarded as what is known as protected characteristics.
With parliamentary votes being held regularly at the moment, it still remains a possibility that the UK may leave the EU without a deal on 29 March 2019.
