Monthly Archives: August 2014

Prison bosses in Scotland have been forced to pay out more than £43,000 after unfairly dismissing two chaplains.

Local councils are calling for a law change to prevent them having to sell voters’ personal details to junk mail firms.

Billionaire businessman Mike Ashley has been revealed as the biggest employer to use the “zero hour” contracts that potentially prevent 20,000 part-time staff at his retail empire from taking a second job.

An NHS Trust has been fined £55,000 after it was found likely to have exposed workers to potentially fatal asbestos material for more than a decade at three of its hospitals.

A gas engineer has been handed an 18-week suspended prison sentence after carbon monoxide fumes from an incorrectly serviced gas-fired heater left a tenant unconscious.

A Jehovah’s Witness who was sacked as a fitness coach after telling a gym member that yoga would allow ‘evil’ into her body has won a pay out for unfair dismissal.