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The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act, which came into effect in April 2008, heralds a new era for health and safety regulation in the workplace.
The Act sets out a new offence for convicting an organisation where a gross failure in the way activities are managed or organised results in a person’s death. If found guilty, companies, organisations and government bodies face considerable penalties and individuals potential imprisonment.
This landmark law could have a significant impact on businesses, including those employing remote workers.
In the past, though it has been possible to prosecute an individual director for corporate manslaughter, criminal action against a corporate body has been almost impossible. The Corporate Manslaughter Act makes it easier to convict organisations whose senior managers are found to be in breach of their duty of care and thereby cause a death.
The Act overcomes the barrier of having to identify the ‘controlling mind’ of an organisation. So an organisation can now be found guilty of corporate manslaughter if an organisational or gross management failing causes a fatality. This means that the actions of senior managers below director level could be deemed to be the actions of the organisation. Continue reading…
Graduates are looking for flexible working above financial reward, according to a report in The Guardian.
So employers are having to consider the work-life balance offering to attract high fliers, followed by training and development, with salary and other benefits in third place.
These findings are in a TARGETjobs survey which asked graduates what they were looking for in their first job.
The recent news that Nottingham City Council plans to introduce a parking fee for companies that provide staff parking highlights another very good reason for businesses to dispense with their office premises altogether.
As Nottingham follows in the footsteps of other similar initiatives across the country, including London and Durham, which both charge for motorists to drive into the city centre, before long, it won’t just be the price of petrol, but the price of parking, which will put increased financial stress on businesses.
If only to reduce our carbon footprint, a survey by the Chartered Management Institute predicts that by 2018, 65% of employees expect that working from home will be commonplace and 73% that the most important consideration to job choice will be work life balance.
Any astute business person knows that the commercial world has changed dramatically over the past 10 years and that the skills set required today has changed with it. The study discusses the depth of change we are likely to face, from a business world under cyber attack to multi-generational teams An 74% of those surveyed argue that ‘virtual businesses’ will be commonplace and 87 % say the nature of work in 2018 will lead to increased ‘virtual contact’.
No matter what you call it, remote working, home or virtual working it seems that employers will increasingly have to offer more lifestyle benefits and put a greater emphasis on integrating work with the personal lives of employees.
Introducing remote working practices means looking at a company’s whole culture, analysing how people currently work within that environment, and finding smarter, more flexible ways of achieving their business goals.
For some companies, this can be a real eye opener, exposing working practices that are outdated and inefficient, in terms of both time and energy. As many companies are discovering, embracing more modern working patterns enables them to reduce costs, as well as attracting and keeping talented staff. Concerns still remain, however about the impact of remote working on employee productivity, effective team building and network security.
Technology has revolutionised the workplace, allowing remote workers to pick up email, consult company databases and browse corporate files, among many other activities. While technology is important – innovations like broadband and wireless kick-started the remote revolution, after all, and advances in virtual private networks, voice over IP and mobile devices have fuelled its continuation – it is not the whole story.
