Boss blaming you for your own accident? Don’t accept it. Ask these five questions and watch them backtrack. Let me tell you something I’ve learnt after two decades as a personal injury solicitor: when someone gets hurt at work, there’s almost always a scramble to shift the blame downwards. I’ve seen it hundreds of times. […]
Category: Employment
Government strike legislation ineffective & violates basic human rights.
Who, if anyone, has the power to coerce employees and their unions into providing even the most basic level of service when they do not wish to do so? Post sponsored by HH probate solicitors in North Shields UK Despite the fact that the European Convention on Human Rights protects “everyone’s right to establish and […]
Why Would UK Companies Care about Domestic Abuse?
Not ‘should’, but ‘would’, as the over 665 companies that are members of the Employer’s Initiative for Domestic Abuse (EIDA) organization signify. It is an odd thing to consider when there’s a commonly held belief that a person’s private life and their public life are to be separate things and a company they work for […]
Should It Be Mandatory for Employees to Get COVID-19 Vaccinations?
The British government is leading the world in giving as many people as possible a first vaccine dose with another shot in six months. The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is the most affordable inoculation against COVID-19 in the world, costing less than £3 per dose and may be stored in simple refrigerated containers instead of the ultra-cold […]
Options and Opportunities for Workers as Hard Brexit Looms
Opinions on Brexit are divided whether it will be good for native workers to find jobs or bad for their rights. Many on both sides of the Brexit debacle agree that a no-deal Brexit is the worst of all possible options, and yet that is what seems most likely. Workers are suing to try and […]