Children and young people
The employment of children is generally subject to limitations regarding the number of hours that they can work. Children also have a number of special rights and protections in the workplace, justified on health and safety grounds. It is importan...
Coaching and mentoring
Coaching is certainly a buzz word in the workplace and with good reason – it delivers great results. The CIPD defines coaching as ‘development techniques based on the use of one-to-one discussions to enhance an individual’s skill...
Competence
The Oxford English Dictionary’s definition of the relevant aspects of competent is: • suitable, appropriate; • sufficient or adequate in amount, or degree; • legally authorised or qualified, able to take cognisance (of a witn...
Corporate manslaughter
The passing of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007, to introduce a statutory offence of ‘Corporate manslaughter’ (called ‘Corporate Homicide’ in Scotland) followed many years of promises by the UK Gov...
Corporate responsibility
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is used by leading companies as a strategic framework, through which all company activities are viewed. It is also known as Corporate Responsibility (CR) and sometimes as Corporate Citizenship. CSR is not a r...
Directors' responsibilities
Company directors are primarily responsible for the management of their companies and, generally, their duties are owed to the company. However, they also owe duties to the owners as a whole. In addition, they have responsibilities in respect of t...