Keenan and Riches’BUSINESS LAW

2 Unauthorised ways of performing the contractual duties. The employer may be liable in spite of the fact that the employee was ...

Chapter 16Employing labour (b)Where the employer’s instruction relates only to the way in which the contractual duty is to be do ...

6 Corporations and the ultra viresrule. Where the employer is a corporation there are further difficulties as regards the corpor ...

Chapter 16Employing labour Employer’s defences There are three main defences which an employer may have if he is sued under the ...

3 Contributory negligence. Sometimes when an injury occurs the person injured and the person causing the injury have both been n ...

Chapter 16Employing labour culpability of each of them. This greatly simplifies the matter for the claimant, who might otherwise ...

Fatal accidents If, as a result of the employer’s negligence, an employee is killed in the course of his employment the personal ...

Chapter 16Employing labour ■Procedures must be put in place to deal with health and safety emergencies. ■Employees must be infor ...

and other materials, such as guidance notes concerning health and safety, to be in metric units of measurement. A thermometer mu ...

Chapter 16Employing labour Users are also entitled to eye and eyesight tests and to special spectacles where normal ones cannot ...

Duties of employers and the self- employed to non-employees – premises Certain duties are imposed upon employers and the self- e ...

Chapter 16Employing labour All forms of supply are included and this part of the 1974 Act covers the supplying by way of sale, l ...

employee at common law, say for injuries received at work by what he alleges to be the employer’s negligence, the employee can p ...

Chapter 16Employing labour Smoking in the workplace – generally It is also arguable that at common law an employer is at fault i ...

A workplace smoking ban The government has issued and consulted on the Smoke- free (Premises and Enforcement) Regulations 2006 ( ...

Chapter 16Employing labour The Commission The Commission has the following general duties: 1 to assist and encourage health and ...

5 Actions against inspectors – indemnity. It is possible to bring at common law an action for damages against an inspector who n ...

Chapter 16Employing labour and practices across the organisation, providing a more effective means for prosecuting the worst cor ...

■There must be emergency plans prepared for all pur- poses and these must be kept up to date. ■There must be appropriate fire es ...

Chapter 16Employing labour back injury was entitled, under the 1998 regulations, to be paid the statutory holiday pay due to him ...