Legislation
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Just what do you need to do to ensure that a business website is fully legally compliant? Ed Harris Hughes explains.
Posted: 23 April 2010 | 14:34
Topics covered in our weekly Infozone briefing include: retirement age to be scrapped?; holiday ruling will hit recruitment; and aApprenticeships in danger?
Posted: 23 April 2010 | 14:33
The Scottish National Party (SNP) has signalled its continued backing for minimum alcohol pricing as it indicated that there was "growing support" in the drinks industry for the scheme.In its election manifesto, the SNP said: "There is growing ...
Posted: 21 April 2010 | 10:03
The UK has eight permanent bank holidays per year - New Year's Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Early May, Spring, Summer, Christmas Day and Boxing Day. With the next bank holiday on 3 May fast approaching, how much do you as an employer know about employment law concerning bank holidays?
Posted: 20 April 2010 | 14:29
Gordon Brown’s suggestion in last night’s historic TV debate that a future Labour government would stop all chefs from outside the European Union from working in the UK is being opposed by the British Hospitality Association (BHA). “We are a tolerant, we are a diverse country, but the controls on migration...
Posted: 16 April 2010 | 17:20
Story of the week: Hotel, café, pub and restaurant customers all face the risk of being unceremoniously shunted off the information superhighway by a heavy-handed piece of government legislation passed hurriedly last week.
Posted: 16 April 2010 | 15:34
Employees now have a legal right to request time off work to undertake training to improve their effectiveness at work and the performance of their employer's business. Emilie Bennetts explains what this means for employers.
Posted: 16 April 2010 | 15:06
Hospitality is premised upon giving customers what they want, whether that's a good night's sleep, a tasty meal or a restorative sharpener at the bar. But this job could soon become a little harder, after last week's passing of the Digital Economy Act.
Posted: 16 April 2010 | 11:32
Operators are to be pitted against each other in a mandatory scheme to rank and reward the best energy efficiency performers. All businesses that had at least one half-hourly electricity meter during 2008 must register for the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme by the end of September.
Posted: 16 April 2010 | 11:20
Licensed operators of pubs and restaurants should consider objecting to new residential or office blocks planned near their business, even if it could bring in more customers. That's the unusual advice from legal experts Poppleston Allen...
Posted: 16 April 2010 | 11:03
Labour and the Conservatives have set out plans to woo the battered pubs sector, with both parties promising help to preserve community pubs. In its manifesto, Labour said it wanted “greater protection for the local institutions local people value”. And it reiterated its threat to take action against pubcos if they did not offer licensees a “non-tie” option.
Posted: 14 April 2010 | 15:59
Hotel, café, pub and restaurant customers all face the risk of being unceremoniously shunted off the information superhighway by a heavy-handed piece of government legislation passed hurriedly last week. The Digital Economy Bill was given Royal Assent as part of the parliamentary “wash up” process ahead of the pre-election dissolution of Parliament,
Posted: 14 April 2010 | 15:43
Prime Minister Gordon Brown duly called the UK General Election this week, just as Caterer was going to press. The electioneering season is now officially open, and we can expect to see the leaders of the main parties and their lieutenants gurning at us from newspapers, televisions, blogs and billboards for the next five weeks
Posted: 08 April 2010 | 11:25
Legal guidance from the Home Office on the mandatory conditions has "only succeeded in creating more confusion" according to an expert in licensing law. Three mandatory conditions - effectively amendments to the Licensing Act 2003 - came into force today.
Posted: 06 April 2010 | 16:13
If one of your employees is taking a high number of occasional sick days, and you suspect they're being dishonest about it, what should you do? Employment law expert Matthew Tom explains how to deal with the problem.
Posted: 06 April 2010 | 15:05
A controversial bill that could threaten free wi-fi connections in restaurants and cafes could be rushed through Parliament, as it heads for its second reading in the House of Commons today. The 24,000-word Digital Economy Bill contains a clause that would allow internet service providers to suspend...
Posted: 06 April 2010 | 11:51
Licensed operators who flout a new ban on "irresponsible" drinks promotions face a maximum penalty of a £20,000 fine or six months in prison as the Government attempts to crack down on binge drinking and alcohol-related violence. Three of six mandatory conditions ...
Posted: 06 April 2010 | 10:50
Standards for hospital food should be enshrined in law according to food policy pressure group Sustain, after failed attempts to improve it is found to have cost taxpayers more than £50m in the last 10 years. A new report by Sustain entitled Yet more hospital food failure… says legislation is the only way...
Posted: 01 April 2010 | 14:12
The two Liverpool hoteliers who last year were cleared of committing a religiously aggravated crime against a guest have been forced to put their property on the market. Ben and Sharon Vogelenzang said that business at their nine–bedroom Bounty House hotel, near Aintree racecourse...
Posted: 29 March 2010 | 17:29
Restaurant tycoon Richard Caring is believed to be preparing legal action to prevent Robin Birley, the son of the late Mark Birley and Lady Annabel Goldsmith, from using the Birley name on a nightclub he plans to open in Shepherd Market, Mayfair, in the second half of next year.
Posted: 29 March 2010 | 10:20
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