This month we consider an important decision from the EAT on the issue of risk assessments for pregnant workers.

Every time an organisation takes a decision to outsource one or more of its functions or to re-tender an existing arrangement for the provision of services, it will almost certainly have to consider, at the very outset, how the employees who currently manage those services will be affected.

The end of 2009 saw the publication of two sets of long-awaited corporate governance proposals. The first was Sir David Walker’s final recommendations on corporate governance in UK banks and other financial institutions (‘Walker’). A matter of days later, the Financial Reporting Council (‘FRC’) published its final report on the 2009 review of the Combined Code on Corporate Governance (‘the Code’), soon to be renamed the ‘UK Corporate Governance Code’, together with a consultation on a revised Code. This article summarises the main changes to corporate governance proposed by both Walker and the FRC.

All skilled UK work visa holders must carry an ID card for foreign nationals as part of UK immigration’s roll-out of the scheme.