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The health and safety calendar highlights key dates for proposed and existing legislation and policy and closing dates for consultation papers relating to major health and safety issues in the UK and EU.

The health and safety calendar highlights key dates for proposed and existing legislation and policy and closing dates for consultation papers relating to major health and safety issues in the UK and EU.

The health and safety calendar highlights key dates for proposed and existing legislation and policy and closing dates for consultation papers relating to major health and safety issues in the UK and EU.

Welcome to the Spring 2012 Health and Safety Calendar.

The HSE offshore Oil & Gas division have delivered the results of their three-year investigation into the safety and integrity of offshore installations and the equipment on them.

In the April Budget the Government announced a one-off increase in statutory redundancy pay by increasing the weekly pay limit to £380 from £350.

On 4 September 2012 the landmark test cases of Eweida and Chaplin v the United Kingdom and Ladele and McFarlane v the United Kingdom went before the European Court of Human Rights ("ECtHR").

Trustees of occupational pension schemes now have a statutory duty to ensure that they have an adequate knowledge and understanding of the legal issues relevant to their scheme.

In a short written statement to Parliament yesterday, the Pensions Minister Steve Webb announced that the Government intends to replace the Retail Prices Index (RPI) with the generally lower Consumer Prices Index (CPI) as the basis of uprating in relation to private occupational pension schemes, the Pension Protection Fund and the Financial Assistance Scheme.

New compensation limits relevant to awards made by employment tribunals will apply from today.

Following calls for a change in the law to enable fire-fighters to respond effectively to dangerous situations, a new Health and Safety Executive policy statement says that while the fire service still has a duty under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 to protect their workers’ health and safety, fire-fighters will not consequently be prevented from doing their job of protecting the public.

In Scott-Davies v Redgate Medical Services the EAT confirmed that there is no statutory provision conferring jurisdiction on Employment Tribunals to consider free-standing complaints that there has been a failure to comply with the statutory dispute resolution procedures. So employees with under the one year's service normally needed to claim unfair dismissal do not have a claim if the statutory 3-step procedure is not followed.

In Morrish V NTL Group Limited (3rd July 2007) the Inner House of the Scottish Court of Session (equivalent to the English Court of Appeal) has confirmed that there is no implied term in an employment contract to make a payment in lieu of notice (PILON).

The Government has issued its response to the consultation on the use of service charges, tips, gratuities and cover charges in payment of the national minimum wage.

In what could be a landmark ruling under sexual orientation discrimination laws, an Employment Tribunal has ruled that even though the former global head of equity trading at HSBC was lawfully dismissed for gross misconduct, he was discriminated against during the investigative process because of his sexual orientation.

Keeley v. Fosroc International Limited the Court of Appeal held that the mere mention that employees were "entitled" to enhanced redundancy pay in a staff handbook made it contractually binding even though there was no methodology for calculating the enhanced redundancy payment in the staff handbook.

The Pensions Regulator has recently finalised the Code of Practice on trustee knowledge and understanding.