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| The Safety, Health & Welfare at Work Act 2005 | 05/09/2005 |
The Safety, Health & Welfare at Work Act 2005, which comes into force in September, strengthens the law on workplace safety generally and, in particular, it envisages giving employers a legal right to test their employees for drug use.  |
| New Construction Industry Scheme | 05/09/2005 |
| New CIS Regulations come into effect on 6 April 2006. Carl Whittaker of Qdos Consulting analyses some of the main points and implications for contractors in the construction industry. |
| Offshore Health and Safety Targets Require Renewed Impetus | 12/09/2005 |
| The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has urged the offshore oil and gas industry to increase its efforts to meet the 2010 target of safest sector in the world, as set by the industry's own Step Change in Safety initiative. |
| Boss' Indecent Proposal Costs His Company £150,000 | 20/09/2005 |
| An executive whose boss offered her money to spend every other weekend with him has been awarded £150,000 compensation by an employment tribunal. The woman resigned as MD of the company after refusing the advances of the chairman. |
| Minimise Risk of Your Company's Identity Being Hi-jacked | 26/09/2005 |
| An initiative recently launched by the Metropolitan Police Service advises businesses how they can take simple preventative measures to minimise their company's identity from being hi-jacked. Fraudsters who steal the identity and then trade under a legitimate company's credit and name are thought to have cost a loss to industry in excess of £50 million a year. |
| Arctic Case Gets A Date At The Court of Appeal | 04/10/2005 |
| The Court of Appeal will hear the Arctic case on the 17 and 18 January 2006. If successful, the amount the Revenue will receive from each case is relatively small, however, because of the number of cases the legislation could be applied to it is estimated that in total the Revenue stand to gain £1bn. |
| Arctic Case Date Change At Court of Appeal | 19/10/2005 |
| Arctic case brought forward and will now be heard in the Court of Appeal on the 29 and 30 November 2005. There is now a possibility that a decision may be known before the 31 January 2006 when the 2004/05 returns have to be submitted to HM Revenue & Customs. |
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