Unite has secured a menopause workplace support policy for women employed by Jaguar Land Rover (JLR).
Motor industry charity Ben is launching personal health checks for people working in the industry.
Dundee-based vehicle technician Gary Campbell was killed in a work incident just 11 days into his new job, Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court has been told.
Swansway Motor Group has strengthened its mental health support for team members by adding a newly qualified mental health first aider to its team.
A North London garage has been fined £12,000 after a customer was crushed by his own vehicle.
Swansway has completed the installation of defibrillators at all their sites aftering launching an initiative to invest in the life saving technology.
Stewart Thornton, a salesman at a Taggarts Land Rover dealership near Glasgow, has been on trial after he reversed into a colleague and left him with brain damage.
A workshop owner has been condemned for running an "amateurish, shambolic" vehicle repair garage after an employee was crushed while fixing a Ford Transit.
A technician who claimed he was driven to resign by sarcastic remarks from bosses after he swallowed petrol while syphoning fuel by mouth has lost his case against West London Motor Group.
Sandicliffe Group MG dealership staff were left “shocked” but unhurt after a Citroen MPV crashed through the glass front of its newly-refurbished showroom.
TrustFord, the UK’s largest Ford dealer group, has invested £90,000 to install defibrillators across all of its 65 dealership locations this year.
Batchelors Motor Group managing director Tony Denton has suggested that UK businesses may have to “start treating extreme heat like extreme snowfall” in a bid to better look after customers and staff.
Defibrillators have been installed at 60 Hendy Group sites across the south and southwest, following £36,000 investment.
Vertu Motors is installing defibrillators in all its dealerships at a cost of more than £100,000.
Almost 10,000 Audi, VW, Cupra Seat and Skoda plug-in hybrids (PHEV) are being recalled to franchised UK car dealerships amid concerns about a fire risk to motorists.
Used car remarketing giant BCA has been fined £1.1 million and ordered to pay £97,000 after a car buyer was crushed by a Porsche at its Paddock Wood auction site in Kent.
Law firm Howes Percival is warning employers considering a ‘no jab, no sick pay’ COVID-19 policy to seek legal advice before instigating any changes.
Government’s work from home advice and the mandatory wearing of face masks will be scrapped after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced an end to COVID-19 Plan B measures.
A quarter (25%) of UK car dealers have emerged from the festive break with staff absence of over 15% as the Omicron variant of COVID-19 continued to grow cases, an AM poll has shown.
Rising cases of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 are exposing anti-vaxxers as the car retail sector’s biggest business disruptor, it has been claimed.
