After an enthralling first weekend, World Cup fever is sky high. However, many employers will be dreading the following four weeks knowing that they are likely to see an increase in unauthorised absences, numerous sporadic holiday requests and quite possibly some employee activity during working time that is deemed inappropriate. The World Cup takes place once every four years, and as such, football fans across the world tend to go a little delirious throughout the tournament – a whole month watching the greatest players in the world grace t... Continue reading

As reported yesterday, HSS Hire is seeking legal advice after the Government included its name on a list of employers who it said was failing to pay employees the minimum wage. HSS maintained that due to an administrative error, underpayment of £150 was made to employees over the course of a month, and was immediately rectified. Despite making a genuine mistake, the tool hire company was included on HMRC’s ‘name and shame’ list of companies flouting Minimum Wage Regulations. The question we posed following the response by HSS was ‘how... Continue reading

As part of a new crackdown, the Government has ‘named and shamed’ 25 employers that have failed to pay their employees the minimum wage. However, will the Government suffer a backlash in the coming weeks as a result of releasing the latest minimum wage offenders list, which contains the largest number of employers publicly named since a new regime was announced last year? We spoke to the tool hire giant, HSS Hire Service Group Ltd, who expressed its outrage at the decision to include its name on the list. Explaining the situation, a spoke... Continue reading

The Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) recently published guidance outlining how to design effective food waste prevention programmes as it looks to help tackle the estimated 1.3 billion tonnes of food wasted globally every year. In a week where news on upcoming changes to shared parental leave and the European Court ruling on commission and holiday pay dominated large proportions of the press, WRAP’s announcement perhaps went unnoticed. However, the first version of the ‘Think.Eat.Save’ tool, which was released by the United N... Continue reading

Every year, there are around 13,000 deaths in the UK caused by work-related illnesses, while workplace injuries cost the UK economy more than £5bn in 2011/2012. The majority of those injuries occur amongst manual labourers, such as agricultural, transport and construction workers, however injuries can strike in any workplace. This eye-opening infographic, created by Westermans International, highlights some of the most common causes of workplace injuries and the true cost that those injuries and illnesses have on individual businesses and soci... Continue reading