All Regulation articles – Page 9
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Features
Managing your people risks
Family friendly policies create new risk issues. You should consider strategic HR and people risk management, says Mark Edelsten.
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Features
Putting a price on life
Mike Hanley discusses the cost benefit problems of increasing the safety of the railways.
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Don't risk employee claims
Increasing complex employment legislation, coupled with broad definitions of "workers" and high awards, are putting pressure on companies. Who would be an employer? asks Rachel Dineley.
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Blowing the whistle
Frank Heinrich-Jones looks at the effects of the Public Interest Disclosure Act.
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Bare minimum
The Government has asked industry to suggest new ways to take the risk out of pension funding. Adrian Leonard explores he alternatives.
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AIRMIC Portfolio
Railtrack's new approach
Railtrack has formalised its risk management approach by setting up a risk review group to lead and co-ordinate the risk management activities of the company.
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Features
The threat from abroad
If you have subsidiaries in developing countries, you could face unexpected claims, warns Fiona Gill.
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No escape for corporate killers
Peter Campion, assisted by Asam Khan, discusses the implications of the proposed new UK offence of corporate killing.
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Fighting off predators
The immediate reaction of most managements to a takeover approach is negative. Sue Copeman discusses strategies for fighting a hostile bid.
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Analysis
Disability discrimination good practice
From 2004, service providers will have to make "reasonable adjustments" to the physical features of their premises to overcome access barriers.
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Features
Effective environmental due diligence
Environmental risks present both practical and legal challenges, quite unlike other factors you have to consider in a merger or acquisition, say David Hockin, Tanya Lloyd Jones & William Butterworth.
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Analysis
NAPF backs report on company law reform
On 1 August, the UK National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) publicly backed the "considered and measured" approach of the company law steering group.
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Features
The polluter pays not always!
Richard Ford discusses the implications of the new regime on contaminated land.
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Analysis
Freedom of information - new risks
The Freedom of Information Bill will give citizens access to information held by public authorities.
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Analysis
Anti-competitive behaviour banned
The Competition Act 1998, which came into force on 1 March, prohibits anti-competitive agreements and behaviour.
