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Penny
Matthews,
Michael Hutin, Lynne Hutin, Dawn Adams, Paul Adams,
Linzi Herbertson, Linda Whelan, & Dorothy Wright are
Corporate
Manslaughter Bill amendments are needed. FACK believes
the manslaughter bill is corporate friendly and demands
company directors' be held liable for the death of their employees
and others who may be killed by work activities. Others such
as in the case of Dawn and Paul Adams whose son Samuel, 6, was
killed at Trafford Shopping Centre. So not only do they feel
the bill should cover workers but anyone injured or killed by the
negligence of a company.
As
the bill stands corporations may only be prosecuted if there is sufficient
evidence to prove that one of it's directors or senior managers
committed manslaughter through gross negligence. There
have been only five small corporate bodies convicted of
manslaughter. FACK would like to see the bill include
imprisonment for gross negligence and/or recklessness and further
penalties for the employing organizations such as, "Corporate
probation, disqualification, adverse publicity orders and banning
the organizations from bidding for public contracts. Rehabilitation
orders that make companies responsible for specific improvements to
their health and safety standards within a set time frame or face
severe penalties should be standard."
It
really doesn't matter where one lives the ethics* are all the
same; they equal what the law allows. It's like we tell our
kids, "If we give you an inch; you'll take a mile."
With all corporate friendly laws and legal loop holes they are
getting away with murder and that mile they are taking seems endless
to those left behind.
We
(U.S.) need a working manslaughter bill, OSHA coverage for all
employees*, strict enforcement, better leadership, and family
involvement in all of these aspects. With any type of
negligence whether willful or not You have a right to fight!
Go ahead and contact your representatives; see if they would be
willing to support such a bill and what they are doing to make a
change. While your at it ask any one up for a new vote!
Refer
to Workplace
Safety the Right Way for ethics.
Refer
to State
Approved OSHA Plans?
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