The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 comes into force on 6 April 2008, and all businesses must therefore take a look at their existing health and safety regulations, if they don??™t want to face an unlimited fine plus potential humiliation by ???name and shame??™ The new offense of corporate manslaughter is committed where an organization commits a ???gross breach??™ of a ???relevant duty of care??™, leading to a person??™s death

Since the Sex Discrimination Act came into force in 1976, the gap between the pay of men and women has narrowed marginally But the rate of progress toward equal opportunities in the workplace which happened in the 70s and 80s has slowed in recent years and, at the current rate, equal pay will take another 50 years