Employers and Illegal Workers
New information was published in May 2014 to help employers prevent illegal working and understand the fines (civil penalties) they face when they employ illegal workers. Find out more at
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Consumer Law Reforms Delayed
A delay of approximately two years is expected in bringing into effect the proposed reforms which result in a ‘Bill of Rights’ for consumers. You can find out more at
Guidance: Competition Law
The Competition and Markets Authority has published guidance on compliance with Competition Law. You can download the guidance at
Card Payments and Transaction Fees
The European Parliament have voted in favour of reforming payments within the European Union including Card payments and transaction fees. The new measures include caps on credit and debit card fees on both cross-border and domestic transactions. There is more…
Music Licence
New regulations came into force on 6th April 2014 in connection with the Copyright (regulation of Relevant Licencing Bodies) Regulation 2014, which sets out standards for those collecting payment of licence fees and distribution in the form of royalties. Find…
Fund for Training
Skills and Enterprise Minister Matthew Hancock has announced an additional £25m of funding to be made available to improve training for new and current employees. Find out more at
Consultation: Company Law
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has published its plan to make it simpler to update information held by Companies House about a business throughout the year as necessary. They are also proposing a joint online filing system between…
Factors in the design of order picking systems that influence manual handling practices
Source: HSE Order picking can be defined as the retrieval of stock keeping units from a warehouse according to a pick list generated from a customer order prior to the despatch of the completed order to the customer. There is…
Antibiotics wins the Longitude Prize
Search for tool to determine between bacterial and viral infections to fight antimicrobial resistance has won £10m Longitude prize. More:
Inspections challenge construction sites to ‘Think Health’
Source HSE Poor working conditions likely to lead to ill health on building sites will be targeted this month as work continues to reduce death, injury and ill health in the industry. For every fatal accident in the construction industry,…