Remembering the workers: Workers’ Memorial Day, 2012

With Workers’ Memorial Day in mind, partner Marcus Weatherby – in a considered piece for Employment Law magazine – looks critically at the Government’s current misguided attack on ‘excessive health and safety provision’.

We desperately need to care more for the elderly… but now it seems we couldn’t care less.

In the light of the recent BBC Panorama exposé on disastrous care home treatment, partner and former nurse Rosamund Rhodes-Kemp pleads for an urgent review of the way we look after society’s elderly infirm…

Workers Memorial Day: ‘Remember the dead – fight for the living.’

With Workers’ Memorial Day (28th April) approaching, Partner Marcus Weatherby is critical of the Government’s current misguided attack on what it sees as ‘excessive health and safety provision’…   

Employment law changes are bad news for employees

Employment specialist Anthea Christie considers the likely impact of a number of much-anticipated changes to employment law being introduced this month. Of particular concern to her is the doubling of the unfair dismissal qualifying period…