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07 April 2020
Issue: 7882 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Health & safety
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NLJ this week: Safe at work?

Employers face important health and safety questions during these uncertain times

For frontline workers, an adequate supply of gloves, masks and hand sanitisers is an obvious requirement. Safeguarding duties may also cover the provision of soap and water, allowing staff to work from home and limiting numbers of customers in shops.

Writing in NLJ this week, Charles Durrant & Letitia Egan, of 3 Temple Gardens, highlight the obligations, issues and guidance available so that employers can protect staff ‘as far as is reasonably practicable’.

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Harneys—Maggie Kwok & George Weston

Harneys—Maggie Kwok & George Weston

Harneys senior leadership appointments

Freeths—Keith Browne & Jim Jordan

Freeths—Keith Browne & Jim Jordan

Freeths strengthens London Construction and Engineering practice with two strategic senior hires

Anthony Collins—Laura Moss

Anthony Collins—Laura Moss

Anthony Collins announces strategic hire to deepen skills base in the social business sector

NEWS
More than 100 teams from the legal and financial services sectors competed in five sports at the 51st Law Society RFC Festival of Sport earlier this month
Part-time status need only be an effective cause of less favourable treatment, rather than the sole cause, the Supreme Court has held in Augustine v Data Cars
Britain’s new acknowledgement that Israel’s occupation is unlawful, and accompanying settlement-goods ban and sanctions, is significant but overdue, argue Danny Friedman KC and Victor Kattan in NLJ this week
New planning fee rises, wider trade union access rights and a service-by-email trap feature in Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way
Existing defamation law can respond to AI ‘hallucinations’, but allocating responsibility will prove harder where outputs reach users without human intervention
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