Liability / Corporate Responsibility




Convicted fatality firm fined £2

A company convicted of workplace safety crimes after a fatal gas blast sent a fireball through its premises has been fined just £2

13 June 2008
Pursuing the corporate killers

The trades union-backed health and safety magazine Hazards is stepping up the pressure on deadly bosses with the launch of new 'deadly business' web resources

30 May 2008
Don't let your first job be your last, TUC warns young summer workers

As four million under 25 year olds go to work this summer and over 250,000 start their first job, the TUC is today (Wednesday) warning them to make sure they don't become one of the 16-24 year olds seriously injured at work every 40 minutes in the UK...

9 August 2006
TUC on Corporate Manslaughter Bill

Brendan Barber, TUC General Secretary, said: "This Bill has been a long time coming. We will study the detail, but hope it will make it easier to bring prosecutions against companies whose negligence has

20 July 2006
Northern TUC disappointed at Lords asbestos ruling - and implications for North East and Cumbria

The TUC today (Wednesday) expressed disappointment at the House of Lords ruling which will reduce the compensation received by two widows whose husbands died from mesothelioma as a result of coming into contact with asbestos at work. In regions su...

3 May 2006
TUC welcome for rail deaths jailing

Whilst today (Friday) welcoming the prosecution and jailing of rail boss Mark Connolly for the manslaughter of four maintenance workers, the TUC has voiced concern that it is still much easier to prosecute the directors of small companies, than the s...

17 March 2006



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