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 ...

This article was updated in December 2022. If you’ve been injured in an accident at work and are thinking about making a compensation claim, there is no reason why you can't instruct a personal injury solicitor to act for you as soon as you like, after the accident. It will ...