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FACK Demand Improvements To Corporate Manslaughter Law

Families Against Corporate Killers is holding a protest in Old Palace Yard/St Stephens Green outside the Houses of Parliament at 10.00am to 11.30am on Tuesday 10th October to mark the Second Reading of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Bill.

Families will hold photographs of the members of their families who were killed at work and talk to MPs and the press about their own cases and why the current law is inadequate and also how the new Bill is inadequate as it stands.

From 13.00 to 14.00 the families will meet with MPs in Room 16 of Portcullis House, hosted by Katy Clarke MP for North Ayrshire and Arran. Members of FACK will explain their concerns about the Bill as it stands and the amendments they feel are essential in order to hold employers properly accountable for killing workers or members of the public through gross negligence.

Following this members of FACK will listen to the debate in the House of Commons.

FACK’s two main concerns with the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Bill are:

• That the current Bill includes a ‘senior manager test’ rather than ‘management failure’. FACK thinks this re-introduces the problems with the ‘controlling mind’ in existing legislation which prevents the prosecution of directors, especially of large employing organisations and so will continue the present is injustice of no large company ever being successfully prosecuted for corporate manslaughter. This seems to defeat the object of the Bill.

• That the current Bill does not allow the prosecution of individual directors or employers who have made decisions, or failed to take action which has contributed to the death of a worker or member of the public.

We call on trade unions and victim support groups to support us, for MPs to attend the meeting in Room 16 House of Commons and for the press to attend the photo-opportunity at 10am.

FACK Website

Source: FACK

 


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