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