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The Employment Rights Act represents the ‘biggest upgrade to rights at work for a generation’ and further measures will come into force next month. From 1 October, the time limit for an employee to make a claim to an Employment Tribunal will be increased from three to...

BSI committee B/544 has opened a consultation on the merger of BS 5234-1 and BS 5234-2 into a new standard BS 15234.  BS 5234 parts 1 and 2 respectively constitute a code of practice and test methods for robustness for partitions and have remained unchanged since...

The publication of new retention data through Build UK’s Payment Performance Table marks a significant milestone in the long-running campaign to improve payment practices across construction. For the first time, reporting requirements now provide transparency around...

340 decisions were made across all valid Gateway Two applications with an approval rate of 82% according to the latest Building Safety Regulator data for the period 11 May to 1 August 2026. However, 300 applications (47% of the total received) were deemed invalid or...

Manual handling injuries remain one of the leading causes of workplace ill health and lost working time in construction, accounting for around 17%* of all reported non-fatal workplace injuries in the UK, making it one of the most significant contributors to lost...

FIS has submitted its response to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s (MHCLG) Call for Evidence on the Strategy for Built Environment Professions, Trades and Occupations. In our response, which you can view here, FIS asserted that competence is...

Skills Minister thanks construction industry for its role in shaping apprenticeship reform The construction industry’s voice is being heard as government moves forward with reforms to apprenticeship assessment, with the Skills Minister recognising the sector’s...