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  • Confidentiality and Non-disclosure Agreements – Protect Your Company
    In today’s business world, confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements are becoming increasingly important for businesses looking to protect themselves from damaging leaks Most employee contracts will contain some kind of confidentiality agreement as standard, but these kinds of agreements are very important if you share information with another company for any reason, or if you hire outside contractors to work for your business
  • Legal Documents – 8 Situations When Your Business Needs Them
    If you are the owner of a Small to Medium Enterprise, it’s likely that the last thing you want to do is worry about the fine details of legal documents, contracts, business agreements, and similar pieces of paperwork You may want to get on with the running of your business, but if you don’t have the correct legal documents in certain situations you pay a high price, whether it is in legal fees, settlement costs or simply lost business
  • What the Proposed Changes to the UK Equality Law Mean to You
    Last week, Harriet Harman announced new equality laws to tackle widespread discrimination Under these new plans, age discrimination would be removed from all aspects of society, and further changes would be made to prevent workplaces from discriminating against minorities
  • Corporate Manslaughter: What You Need To Know
    The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 comes into force on 6 April 2008, and all businesses must therefore take a look at their existing health and safety regulations, if they don’t want to face an unlimited fine plus potential humiliation by ‘name and shame’

    The new offense of corporate manslaughter is committed where an organization commits a ‘gross breach’ of a ‘relevant duty of care’, leading to a person’s death
  • Know Your Rights! Legal Updates 2007
    Unless you’ve been living under a rock in outer space then you’ll have heard about the smoking ban, but do you know about the legal updates on maternity leave, holiday entitlement and corporate management Workers, employers and directors need to be aware of these developments
  • You’re Fired! If Only It Were That Easy – Avoiding An Unfair Dismissal Trial…
    I think I speak for all managers around the country when I say that we have all, in our darker moments, fantasized about mimicking Sir Alan Sugar’s catchphrase on ‘The Apprentice’ and telling an employee in no uncertain terms that they need to clear their desk and leave: “You’re fired” Nice as it is to be able to pretend it would be this easy to get rid of that typist who spends more time on the phone to friends than doing their job, or the office manager who pulls a sickie every week, the truth is that simply firing your staff in this unceremonious manner will lead to all the ‘pleasures’ of an ‘unfair dismissal’ lawsuit
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