Flexible working extended to all employees in UK

July 1 2014

Employees across the UK can now request flexible working hours after the right previously reserved for carers and those looking after children was extended by the government….

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Catering suppliers fined £7,500 after gas explosion

June 25 2014

A catering supply company has been fined £7,500 after three people were seriously injured in a gas explosion in a hotel kitchen in Aberdeenshire….

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Scrap metal firm and businessman fined £70,000 after worker loses both legs

June 25 2014

A scrap metal company and a businessman have been fined a total of £70,000 after a site worker lost both legs as the doors of a 16-tonne baling machine closed on him….

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Company secretary left paralysed after three metre fall from gritter

June 13 2014

A Glasgow-based company has been fined £13,500 for safety failings after a worker was left paralysed from the neck down when he fell around three metres from the top of a gritter….

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Postal workers refuse to deliver The Sun over Hillsborough coverage

June 10 2014

Postal workers in west Lancashire have told bosses they will walk out if they are asked to deliver free promotional copies of The Sun newspaper this week….

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