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Tesco Supermarkets Ltd. v Nattrass [1971] UKHL 1 is a leading decision of the House of Lords on the "directing mind" theory of corporate liability.. This is a leading case on the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 section 24(1), where Tesco relied upon the defence of the 'act or omission of another person' i.e. their store manager, to show that they had taken all reasonable precautions and all due ...
The regulations implemented European Union directive 89/654/EEC on minimum safety and health requirements for the workplace and repealed and superseded much of the Factories Act 1961 and Offices, Shops and Railway Premises Act 1963. [2] Since 31 December 1995, all new and existing workplaces have had to comply with these regulations. [3]
Shops Act 1950, an Act to regulate shop opening hours and Sunday trading; Shops Bill 1986, an attempt to repeal the 1950 Act and legalise Sunday trading; Sunday Trading Act 1994, an Act that legalised Sunday trading in England and Wales; Sunday Working (Scotland) Act 2003, an Act allowing workers in Scotland the right to refuse to work on a Sunday
Criticism of Tesco includes allegations of stifling competition due to its undeveloped "land bank", [9] pugilistically aggressive new store development without real consideration of the wishes, needs and consequences to local communities, [10] using cheap and/or child labour, [11] [12] opposition to its move into the convenience sector [13] and ...
The Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw) is a trade union in the United Kingdom, consisting of over 360,000 members. [3] Usdaw members work in a variety of occupations and industries including: shopworkers, factory and warehouse workers, drivers, call centres, clerical workers, milkround and dairy process, butchers and meat packers, catering, laundries, chemical processing ...
The post was created by the Groceries Code Adjudicator Act 2013 and is an independent office within the Department for Business and Trade. The UK Competition Commission (as of 1 April 2014 [update] the Competition and Markets Authority or CMA) undertook an investigation of grocery retail in 2009, and recommended that government establish an ...
Long title: An Act to make fresh provision for securing the health, safety and welfare of persons employed to work in office or shop premises and provision for securing the health, safety and welfare of persons employed to work in certain railway premises; to amend certain provisions of the Factories Act 1961; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
The first two requirements are contained in the Shop Hours Act 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. c. 62), which also prescribed that a notice, referring to the provisions of the act, and stating the number of hours in the week during which a young person may be lawfully employed in the shop, shall be kept exhibited by the employer; the third requirement was first provided by the Seats for Shop Assistants Act ...