First consultancy fined for health and safety missteps
And DLA Piper partner Carl Blake on Australian employers being told to ‘rack off’ from contacting employees after work hours – and the unlikelihood of ‘right to disconnect’ rules being enacted in New Zealand.
Not just employers but also safety consultancies have been put on notice by the first-ever sentencing of a consultancy under 2015’s Health and Safety at Work Act, with one employment law expert saying a path to liability for advisers had been established with the case.
