Business legal
Legal considerations for businesses.
Avoiding Workplace Accident Claims
According to the records kept by medical establishments throughout the United Kingdom there are more than two million people injured on their jobs each year. Employers lose money when their employees are injured on the job, and employees lose money, and sometimes their lives because of these work related accidents.
The Health and Safety Act establishes guidelines that help to assure that all workers in the United Kingdom have a safe work environment. Employers who want to make sure their employees are not injured on the job and ensure a work accident claim isn’t brought against them should consider the most frequent types of accidents that are reported, and ways they can prevent those accidents from happening on their job locations.
Is Health And Safety Just Red Tape?
There are a large number of people who believe that the health and safety act is filled with ways to make it harder on the average business owner to conduct business. The health and safety act has a lot of guidelines and regulations that business owners must comply with, and with those regulations come a lot of documentation that has to be completed.
Many people feel that the health and safety act is a waste of time, and that it caters to people who like to cause trouble in the work place. Those people who feel like that are wrong on every level. The health and safety act was not developed to protect employees, and it was not developed to protect business owners.
How To Avoid Claims Of Unfair Dismissal
When you have employees there might be times when you have to dismiss one of them. You want to be sure that when you do let an employee go that the dismissal cannot be construed as an unfair dismissal. An unfair dismissal violates an employee’s rights and can get you into a lot of legal troubles.
To help you understand the difference between a wrongful dismissal, and a legal one you need to understand the following terms.