The Sentencing Council (SC), the independent, non-departmental public body tasked with developing sentencing guidelines in England and Wales, has proposed cracking down on corporate manslaughter offences by imposing steeper fines in its November 2014 consultation.

The findings of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (PwC) Global Economic Crime Survey 2014 have business owners and high-level employees reassessing their organisations’ protections against economic crime.

The Volkswagen Touareg has topped Glass's list of the fastest selling used cars in the UK last month.

Police are hunting a youth who caused thousands of pounds of damage by running across the roofs of cars stored on a garage forecourt.

Manufacturing firm in court after worker loses arm A Powys firm was fined £10,000 and ordered to pay £11,865 when a 59-year-old worker lost his arm during routine maintenance on an industrial saw.

In December 2014, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) – a tribunal public body responsible for hearing appeals from Employment Tribunals – dismissed an employee’s claim that his privacy had been infringed by his employer and confirmed, more generally, employers’ rights to monitor workplace emails and Internet use when a clear policy is in place.

Recent research undertaken by the HSE and the Health and Safety Laboratory (an independent agency of the HSE offering health and safety research) conclusively proves the efficacy of the HSE’s Manual Handling Assessment Tool (MAC tool).

Energy costs can be a significant drain on any business, but especially on SMEs, which typically have narrower profit margins than larger businesses.

Technological growth and free trade agreements continue to shrink the global marketplace—what was once on the other side of the world is now only a click away.

On 22 December 2014, Employment Minister Esther McVey announced that the government is rolling out an ‘older workers’ champion scheme across the entire United Kingdom to tackle age discrimination and employ older workers beginning April 2015.