Workplace Law Magazine is available only to Premium Members of the Workplace Law Network. Produced 10 times each year, it is distributed in hard copy format in the first week of the month, and is also available online.
Have we binned your Workplace Law Magazine?
If you’re reading this editorial message, then you’ll be aware by now that, for this issue only, we have not printed your entire Workplace Law Magazine, but have instead made it available online. Our decision to do this was not some misguided attempt to save the planet, or indeed to move the magazine away from its well-loved printed format, but simply to make a point: do things need to be done in the way they have always been done, just because that is what we are used to – and perhaps, what we prefer? If it is more environmentally friendly to do things in another way, should we?
Next issue, Workplace Law intends to return to printing the full magazine again (on recycled paper, of course!), but took the opportunity this time around to make members question whether they can make changes to their work practices — whether that’s publishing, manufacturing or providing another kind of service.
This special issue of the magazine ties in with Sustainable Workplaces Week, 7-11 April, hosted by Workplace Law Network. You can find details of activities taking place during this week from p. 16, but essentially the campaign is being held to help businesses to cut through the mass of useless, scientific information about global warming, and find out about practical steps they can actually take to make a difference.
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In this issue
LATEST
04 EDITORIAL
We’ve been bombarded with information about what’s going to happen to the planet if we don’t take action to prevent global warming. But presented with such a big picture, it’s difficult for workplace managers to grasp what they can actually do to make a difference.
We’ve been bombarded with information about what’s going to happen to the planet if we don’t take action to prevent global warming. But presented with such a big picture, it’s difficult for workplace managers to grasp what they can actually do to make a difference.
FOCUS
05 WORST CASE SCENARIO
Claire Fuller investigates the real effect that global warming will have on the workplace if we don’t take preventative action.
09 EDUCATION, ENTERPRISE AND EMPLOYABILITY
As a big company Ernst & Young is going about corporate responsibility in a big way.
13 BEYOND THE BREADLINE
Alistair Edie discusses the challenges organisations face in implementing a Living Wage.
COMMENT
12 THE GREENIES WERE RIGHT!
The true vision of sustainability is one of tremendous abundance, where we celebrate the wonderful diversity of life and benefits of a healthy planet, says Mark Bonnema.
NETWORK
15 SUSTAINABLE WORKPLACES WEEK
Workplace Law Network is dedicating a week — from 7 to 11 April — to offering workplace managers a practical insight into the real impact that business can have on the environment.
17 THE BEST OF THE 9TH ANNUAL FACILITIES MANAGEMENT LEGAL UPDATE CONFERENCE – IN ONE DAY
Following the success of the 9th Annual Facilities Management Legal Update Conference, Workplace Law is running a stripped-down, one-day event that brings together the very best elements and latest updates from the two-day event.
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23 EDITORIAL
Are we all going to spend time and money in an effort to operate our businesses in a sustainable fashion, only to discover years down the line that all this hype is just that? There is plenty of evidence to suggest that the earth’s temperature is naturally increasing and, likewise, will naturally fall again in years to come.
FOCUS
24 CLIMATE CHANGE: "THE BIGGEST GUILT TRIP IN HUMAN HISTORY"
Global climate has always changed and always will, so, says Nic Paton, efforts on the part of organisations to reduce carbon emissions could be a costly waste of time. Besides, businesses are more concerned with saving face than saving the planet
28 FALSE ADVERTISING?
Louise Smail investigates the practice of ‘greenwashing’; businesses putting out environmentally-friendly images that hide their environmentally unsound activities.
32 THE CLIMATE CHANGE DEBATE: "IT’S GOING TO MAKE THE WORLD WORSE"
Professor James Woudhuysen speaks to Claire Fuller about why he believes the Government has got its approach to sustainability all wrong.
COMMENT
31 MANUFACTURERS’ GREEN CLAIMS: TO BE BELIEVED?
Business managers are becoming increasingly concerned with the environmental impact of the products they select. As this becomes more of a factor in selection, manufacturers will continue to make more and more claims that may be not much more than simple boasts to generate sales, argues Jorgen Josefsson
TECHNICAL
34 LEGAL UPDATE
In-depth information and guidance on: Energy Performance Certificates and rents; Measuring environmental performance of buildings; and Sustainability in procurement.
THE DATA
38 THIS MONTH'S STATISTICS
Five pages of key statistics and information on health and safety and employment law.
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