Companies in the UK seafood industry are being urged to find out more about laws that could have far reaching consequences on their livelihoods.

08/08/08 Fish Update

Topics such as illegal and migrant workers, changes to employees' holiday entitlement and employers' health & safety obligations will be covered in an Employment Law and Health & Safety seminar being organised by the Seafish Industry Authority in conjunction with Peninsula Business Services.

Due to take place on September 2 at the Seafish Offices in the Europarc, Grimsby, this free seminar will also cover employers' statutory duties, employee rights, discrimination laws, and tribunals.

Paul Williams, Director of Research at Seafish, said: "Ongoing changes to employment law and health & safety legislation have significant implications for business owners, directors and senior management in the seafood industry. For example, many of them are probably not aware that the maximum compensation for unfair dismissal is now £60,600, or that minimum holiday entitlement is to increase from April 1 2009."

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