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• National Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (FHRS)

  Feb 29, 2012
  A reminder about the National Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (FHRS) across England, Wales and Northern Ireland which replaced the old ‘scores on the doors systems’.
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• Holiday Season - Gas Safety

  Feb 29, 2012
  Next weekend will see the official start to the British summer holiday season. If you’re a holiday accommodation owner or landlord, opening for the first time this year, then what better time to make sure those gas appliances have been checked.
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• Fox Supports a Swift Kill

  Feb 24, 2012
  "It is too difficult to hire and fire, and too expensive to take on new employees. It is intellectually unsustainable to believe that workplace rights should remain untouchable while output and employment are clearly cyclical." said Mr Fox this week.
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• Service Provision Changes and TUPE

  Feb 23, 2012
  Some thirty five employees of Eddie Stobart Limited were affected by the law the law that applies when a business loses a major customer and attempts to transfer the employees who did work for that customer to the new service provider.
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• Big Bonuses? Who cares?

  Feb 23, 2012
  The recent press and media coverage of the furore surrounding bonus payments to executives and others within the banking sector has highlighted the contractual relevance of pay structures and procedures to any employment contract.
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• The Work Programme - Unpaid Slave Labour?

  Feb 23, 2012
  The Work Programme is now under closer scrutiny than ever from those critical of its underlying purpose and ethical basis. Tesco have announced their intention to pay programme users normally during their period of engagement with them.
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• Social Media

  Feb 21, 2012
  There have recently been many reports in the media that portray social media in a bad light; especially when it is used in the workplace. However, if you prepare and protect your organisation with the correct policies and guidelines surrounding these, social networking can become an excellent tool for your business to use.
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• The Effects of Electronic Smoking

  Feb 14, 2012
  Concerns have been raised that use of the electronic cigarette device might carry health risks and in addition, concerns that they could appeal to other non smoking groups such as children.
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• Attending Work in Bad Weather

  Feb 09, 2012
  Employers should give serious consideration to the planning and implementation of a bad weather policy to ensure consistency and fairness of approach in such circumstances.
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• Gas Safe Register

  Feb 09, 2012
  By law, all gas engineers must be on the Gas Safe Register which replaced CORGI registration in April 2009.
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