TUC

• Working in high temperatures: how to ensure your staff are safe
  Posted on July 30, 2013 by QualitySolicitors
  If you’re reading this from the comfort of your air conditioned office, then you’re lucky. But spare a thought for the people who are working in the confines of an office without cooling or who are working outside.
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  Posted in: Employment law
  Tagged: Employment law, work place safety, working in high temperatures, health and safety, TUC
• Hands off our employment rights
  Posted on October 2, 2011 by Louise Restell
  According to the OECD, the UK already has one of the most business-friendly frameworks of employment law of any of its members, second only to the US. The chancellor, George Osborne, is obviously not convinced. He told The Sun newspaper yesterday we talk far too much about ‘union rights’ and not enough about the rights of unemployed people to get a job. That’s why he’s increasing the qualifying period for employees to make unfair dismissal claims from one to two years.
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  Posted in: Employment law
  Tagged: employment law, employment rights, employment tribunal, Osborne, TUC, unfair dismissal, unions