Four-day working weeks have hit the headlines again, with a second UK-wide pilot set to begin in November. While there is debate around whether shortening the work week is the answer, attitudes towards more flexible ways of working are changing and employers who fail to recognise this risk being left behind.
By Kerry Reals on 01 November 2024
From March 2025, many businesses in England will have to begin separating their recyclable and food waste from general waste prior to collection, but the changes will bring wider business benefits, such as reduced waste disposal costs and improved sustainability credentials.
By Adriana Olaya Rodriguez, Newell Brands on 12 November 2024
When most people think of injuries in the materials handling industry, they picture serious incidents – severe trauma or even fatalities. However, a silent issue affects far more workers every day: musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs).
By Kirsty Cunningham, Mitsubishi Forklift Trucks on 11 November 2024
Employers in India are failing to provide sufficient and separate toilet facilities for female workers, leaving women struggling to find safe sanitation and being discouraged from entering the world of work.
By Orchie Bandyopadhyay on 07 March 2023
Although India’s gig workers have long campaigned for better employment conditions and social security benefits, commentators say progress in wgaining them is painfully slow.
By Orchie Bandyopadhyay on 08 February 2023
ASHA workers are universally praised for their vital work in improving the health of impoverished villagers, but have long argued that the government continues to deny them better wages, improved working conditions and basic social security benefits.
By Orchie Bandyopadhyay on 08 February 2023
Many of India’s domestic workers face exploitation, poor working conditions and low wages, and campaigners say the one of the main reasons is the central government’s failure to introduce nationally applicable laws to protect them.
By Orchie Bandyopadhyay on 07 March 2023
Ongoing failures to prevent exposure to asbestos suggest much more needs to be done to build the skills, knowledge and competence of those with day-to-day responsibility for preventing exposure in UK buildings.
By Colette Willoughby, Asbestos Compliance Limited & National Organisation of Asbestos Consultants (NORAC) on 01 April 2023
As workplaces re-open, many Indian businesses are adopting a hybrid model of office and home working, and surveys suggest employees feel this will improve their work-life balance and wellbeing.
By Orchie Bandyopadhyay on 05 November 2021
The manual cleaning of human waste from sewers and septic tanks has long been banned in India due to the risk to life, but campaigners say scores of workers are still dying in sewers every year due to government inaction.
By Orchie Bandyopadhyay on 05 November 2021
Women in India face major disadvantages in getting and retaining decent quality jobs, but some of the country’s biggest companies are determined to change this.
By Orchie Bandyopadhyay on 12 October 2021
Several thousand workers in India’s automotive parts factories suffer horrendous hand and finger injuries every year. Campaigners say it’s time the country’s biggest automotive companies do more to improve health and safety standards in their supply chain.
By Orchie Bandyopadhyay on 07 September 2021
India’s mining industry has a poor health and safety record, despite many of the mines being owned by the union and state governments. However, trade unions warn that plans to privatise mines could further erode safety standards, putting workers’ lives at even greater risk.
By Orchie Bandyopadhyay on 07 September 2021
