Employers owe their employees a duty of care to keep them safe at work. This duty is in part imposed on them by common law and in part by statute. Common law comes from custom and precedent i.e., unwritten law that develops over time and law which results from the ...
Some people injured in accidents in the workplace don’t even think about making an accident at work claim. It isn’t because they believe it is wrong to make a claim – it is because they don’t realise they can claim. You will have probably heard of the advertising slogan often ...
To quote the lyrics of Elvis Costello in his 1970s hit song, “Accidents will happen!” Whilst it is true that prevention of all accidents could only be possible in an ideal world, nevertheless, an employer owes his employees a duty to take reasonable care of their health and safety whilst ...
At Mooneerams personal injury solicitors, we get asked to handle hundreds of personal injury claims every year for people who have been injured in accidents at work. We often wonder how many more people would make legitimate injury claims had they not, wrongly, believed they could not claim, for one ...
If you ever got asked what you thought was the most dangerous type of job you could have, what would your answer be? Working in the building trade, perhaps? You'd certainly be correct in thinking it is right up there as one of the most dangerous occupations. Statistically, though, it's ...
In most people’s eyes, slip and trip accidents at work probably wouldn’t obviously rank amongst the most serious types of accident claims that a personal injury solicitor would have to deal with on a day to day basis. Whilst that might be true in some instances, it would be wrong ...
There is no legal requirement for an employer to continue paying an employee who takes time off work to recover from an injury sustained in an accident at work. An employee who takes sick leave will only be entitled to receive Statutory Sick Pay (SSP), provided specific criteria are met. ...
Employers have a common law duty to look after their workers’ health and safety. That means that they must take reasonable care of their employees’ whilst they are at work. Accidents at work still happen though and there are lots of them too. In the year 2019, in the UK, ...
There’s an iconic image that you quite often see being shared on social media. It’s a black and white photograph and it shows 11 construction workers who were part of the many who were involved in building the Rockefeller Centre in New York City, during the Great Depression. They were ...
Let’s turn this question around, a bit. Your employer’s duty of care to you starts the minute you walk into the workplace or jump into the cab of a company lorry, car or other vehicle to start your day’s work. In other words, your rights as an employee start as ...