06
Mar 2015
CQC chief executive, David Behan, has responded to Dr Bill Kirkup’s report following his investigation into Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust, regarding the unnecessary deaths of 11 babies and one mother at Furness General Hospital, as follows: “We welcome today’s report and our sympathies are with the families who have suffered as a result of…
06
Mar 2015
Chadwick Lawrence was the main sponsors for the 120th Anniversary Dinner and Gala Variety Performance at the Theatre Royal Wakefield. This unique celebration was to mark the 120th year since the theatre’s doors opened in 1894; the night helped to raise funds towards the Theatre Trust for future improvements of the striking Grade II listed…
04
Mar 2015
An investigation into Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust has ruled that the unnecessary deaths of 11 babies and one mother at Furness General Hospital came about from a ‘lethal mix’ of failures. The investigation found 20 major failures in care from 2004 to 2013 at the hospital, calling the incidents “serious and shocking”. The wider…
27
Feb 2015
The government has recently announced increases to various entitlements which will take effect in April 2015. The relevant increases are:- On 5 April 2015, statutory for maternity, adoption, paternity, additional paternity and shared parental pay will increase from £138.18 to £139.58 per week; From 6 April 2015, the weekly rate of statutory sick pay will…
27
Feb 2015
The Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) recently considered a constructive dismissal case brought by an employee who resigned some 18 months after an identified fundamental breach of her contract of employment. It is a well established principal that, in addition to there being a fundamental breach of contract on the part of the employer which results…
27
Feb 2015
Many contracts of employment contain a clause which purports to confer a right on the employer to vary any terms of the contracts at its discretion. Such widely drafted clauses rarely work in practice as the courts refuse to allow the enforcement of provisions which change the balance of power so fundamentally in the employment…
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