Our next one-day FM Legal Update takes place on 4 October in London. Now in its 18th year, it’s still the most popular legal briefing in the sector. The programme changes every time we run it, to ensure we are covering the key events of the past twelve months, while also looking ahead to regulations expected to come on stream in 2018. In health and safety, we’ll be covering the Grenfell Tower fire, and the implications for commercial landlords, FM service providers and building managers. We’ll also be looking at new corporate manslaugh... Continue reading

In June 2017, a woman claimed she was sacked from her job at a bar in Hull after refusing to wear a bra to work. The bar denied the allegations, claiming no one had been dismissed, but the woman claimed she had been let go after inappropriate sexual remarks were made and she was told not to return if she was not wearing a bra. This comes on the back of the heavily publicised case in January 2015 of Nicola Thorp, who was dismissed from her London office job for refusing to wear high heels. Thorp initiated a government petition calling for a ref... Continue reading

Despite the highly anticipated arrival of Amendment 3 to the 17th edition of the Wiring Regulation in 2015, the safety risk presented by poor electrics remains a huge problem. As such, as we look towards the initial draft of the 18th edition, it may come as no surprise that, among other things, optimising safety standards and negating the risk of electric shock, fires or other dangers presented by faulty and inadequately installed electrics will remain a core focus. Here, Mahendra Mistry, Technical Manager for Electrical Systems at Bureau Verit... Continue reading

In April of this year, the Government introduced the Apprenticeship Levy, requiring employers across the UK with an annual salary bill of more than £3m to contribute to the apprenticeship pot. The impact of the Levy is unknown as yet, but the following is what we do know is in store for businesses. The Conservative Government promised three million new apprenticeships by 2020 and therefore need businesses who fit this criteria to pay 0.5% of their annual pay bill into the scheme to fund the growth in apprenticeships. However, the participatin... Continue reading

Refresher training tends to come in for a lot of stick by the people who often feel they’ve been forced to do it as part of a ‘tick box’ compliance procedure. And all too often, they are right.  Finding a way of refreshing existing knowledge – while delivering an update on important changes that have taken place in the interim – is one of the toughest challenges for learning and development teams and indeed for training providers such as International Workplace. How best to remind people about things they already know, without bori... Continue reading