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Health Canada identifies lithium-ion batteries, infant bath seats, and water beads as hazards of concern
Health Canada has recently identified three new classes of products that pose a hazard of concern.
United Kingdom | Publication | October 2023
On September 28, 2023, the Pensions Regulator (TPR) reported that it has issued its first fine against a pension scheme for failing to publish its climate change report on time.
Under the Occupational Pension Schemes (Climate Change Governance and Reporting) Regulations 2021, which came into force in October 2021, the trustees of certain schemes are required to publish a climate change report on a publicly available website. The reporting duty is coming into effect in stages and first applied to schemes with assets of £5bn or more.
Failure to comply with this requirement on time carries a mandatory penalty, with a minimum of £2,500. The maximum penalty is £5,000 where a trustee is an individual, or £50,000 where the trustee is a corporate body.
In this case, the report was produced on time, but was not published before the deadline due to an administrative error (but was published six days after the trustees became aware of the administrative error). TPR issued a mandatory penalty of £5,000 in May 2023. In its report, TPR highlighted that:
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Health Canada has recently identified three new classes of products that pose a hazard of concern.
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An employer’s ability to ask for a sick note when an employee is absent from work due to illness is becoming increasingly curtailed across Canada.
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Since 2022, the Government of Canada has introduced three waves of amendments to the Competition Act (Act), making substantive changes to Canada’s competition laws, with the most recent amendments receiving royal assent on June 20, 2024.
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