Weekly Issue 281

Workers made to pay for own safety equipment

A recently published TUC survey has found that employers are forcing one in four employees to pay for their own personal protective equipment (PPE), despite health and safety regulations to the contrary.

No chance of success

Tribunals have the power to award costs if it finds that a claim had no reasonable chance of succeeding, among other circumstances.

Pension measures

The Equal Treatment Directive states, among other things, that employers cannot discriminate on the ground of age, unless they can objectively justify it.