This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
If such organisations are held to be better informed about volunteers and employees, will that create new liabilities and therefore mean new costs for them?
Perhaps I have misread or misunderstood the documents, and perhaps it is necessary under European law to create new crimes in respect of which sheep farmers and others may be accused, but if that is not necessary I think that the farming community would expect us to get to grips with this matter.
The planning-for-real approach is an excellent example of how that might be done, but we want to encourage the national park authority to examine new and innovative ways of planning—perhaps better ways than planning for real.
As I understand it, if somebody is a member of, for example, an enterprise board and is put on the board of a new company, his activities on the board of the new company are covered by this bill.
Existing employment contracts are existing employment contracts. Are we suggesting that any new employment contracts should contain a requirement for staff to comply with the code?
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
2 February 2001
How this will impact on employment will depend on how new contractors operate. However, I expect the TUPE Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations to apply.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
21 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a breakdown of the costs of recruiting the new Director of the Scottish Manufacturing Advisory Service.