Download audio As forecasters at the Met Office predict the highest July temperatures ever recorded this week, with a 30% probability on Wednesday (19 July) of breaking the all-time UK temperature record, and the TUC call for employers to relax their dress codes, employers will find themselves once again facing the question of - and issues surrounding - workplace temperature. BBC Radio Cambridgeshire questioned Workplace Law Managing Director David Sharp about what employers can – and should – be doing for their employees when the tempe... Continue reading

This feature article first appeared in issue 18 of Workplace Law Magazine (June 2006). More information on Workplace Law Magazine can be found at http://www.workplacelaw.net/magazine Case study: BT on the security risks of a mobile workforce. By Bridget Warrington. It would seem our working future is flexible. Flexible working, remote working and working from home are being actively encouraged by the Work Wise Week campaign, which is supported by the TUC, the CBI and BT, in order to promote a sensible work life balance in the UK. The... Continue reading

This feature article first appeared in issue 18 of Workplace Law Magazine (June 2006). More information on Workplace Law Magazine can be found at http://www.workplacelaw.net/magazine/ Licence to…protect your workplace? Due to a Security Industry Authority (SIA) backlog 30,000 security operators may currently be working illegally. Katy Brown interrogates Robert Buxton of the SIA to find out why there has been a backlog, and to clear up some of the confusion that still surrounds security licensing. Over a month after the deadline for secur... Continue reading

The Workplacelaw Network has published its Special Report – "Data Protection, Human Rights, and RIP Acts – Special Report", which is aimed at helping employers, workplace managers, HR departments and consultants (in both the public and private sectors) to comply these three pieces of complex new legislation. The Report is written by Bernadette Livesey, a leading Human Rights Solicitor at Walker Morris. This Special Report is designed to be a practical guide for these managers to RIPA, DPA and HRA – three pieces of legislation that are ... Continue reading

The Workplacelaw Network - in association with Bird & Bird solicitors - is organising a legal seminar to help members to get to grips with the new Code of Practice on employment practices. The seminar will take place in central London on 9 May 2002. The Information Commissioner's Office is in the process of finalising a four part Code which will set out what employers must do to comply with the Data Protection Act 1998. The first part of the Code - dealing with recruitment and selection - was published in mid-March. The remaining parts wil... Continue reading