To celebrate the Tour de France passing through Cambridge, the staff at Workplace Law have vowed to cycle 549 miles in seven days to raise money for our chosen charity for 2014, Global Generation. The UK leg of this year’s Tour de France commences on Saturday 5 July and will see over 150 professional athletes cycling 549 miles over three days before the Tour crosses the Channel into France.  On Monday 7 July, the Tour will pass through Cambridge and to mark the occasion we've decided to organise our very own cycling extravaganza. We are ... Continue reading

Workplace Law are now offering the IEMA Leading with Environmental Sustainability course as a public half day course taking place in London on Thursday 17 July. There is huge value that can be gained through strategic management of environmental risks and opportunities. Issues such as climate change, resource scarcity and the costs of dealing with pollution and waste are of paramount importance to organisations operating within finite environmental limits. This half-day course from IEMA provides senior executives across all sectors of busine... Continue reading

With four weeks to go until the HSE’s CDM Consultation deadline expires, Workplace Law is urging all those with experience in construction projects to submit their views. Whether large or small, the HSE wants to hear from everyone within construction as to their plans for the CDMC role and the Principal Designer, and what some of the key changes it is proposing will mean for businesses across the sector. Workplace Law will be submitting its own response to the consultation in the next few weeks, but we’d love to hear your views first. Las... Continue reading

The BIFM 2014 Awards Ceremony may not take place until 13 October, but the hard work is already underway to ensure the event is a huge success, and we are calling on you to help us achieve this goal. Entries for the BIFM Awards are open, and as a partner of the BIFM, we are inviting you to submit your entry to the Learning & Career Development category before the closing date, Friday 9 May, which is getting ever closer now! This Award recognises FM organisations or internal FM teams who can provide demonstrable commitment to improving the kn... Continue reading

ThinkFM 2014 is now only two weeks away, and with a programme full of exceptional speakers, this year’s conference is set to surpass the achievements of previous years. Delegates attending this year’s event, which takes place on Tuesday 13 May at Kings Place, London, will be amongst the first to hear the key findings of the recently-published Farrell Review in the session titled ‘The Farrell Review of architecture and the built environment’, led by Max Farrell, Partner at Farrells, and David Sharp, Managing Director, Workplace Law. Wi... Continue reading