You have recently been appointed the company secretary of Foundry Ltd. The following problems emerge at the first board meeting.

(a) The members of the board are concerned as to whether they are taking appropriate steps to communicate with the employees as to how the company is fulfilling its obligations under Health and Safety legislation. what is an explanatory memorandum for the next board meeting as to the legal requirements and indicate the steps which the company should be taking.

(b) It appears that Foundry Ltd employs 100 women and 50 men in an area where there is a large number of immigrant families. The managing director appears to have paid little or no attention to sex, race and equal pay legislation. The board, which is concerned about this, asks for an explanatory memorandum, again, for the next board meeting, summarising the main provisions of the relevant legislation and setting out procedures which the company should adopt to ensure that the law is complied with.

John is one of the employees of a firm in which you are a partner. He suffers badly from arthritis. He has been employed for ten years. However, he has had a number of absences of two to three weeks' duration over the past three years. John is employed as a shop assistant and the manager of the shop has just informed you that John

has now been off work for eight weeks with arthritis and is still not fit to come back to work. The manager wants to write to John telling him that he is dismissed.

note for your next partnership meeting as to the legal position if John is dismissed.

Alan worked for ten years for Pleasant Ltd. It was taken over 18 months ago by Aggressive Ltd and Alan continued in his job. He has found the management of Aggressive Ltd to be very difficult and domineering. Amongst other things, the management has asked him to work in the stores issuing and accounting for equipment issued to Aggressive's employees. Alan feels that he has not been trained to and has given in his notice. Advise him as to his rights.

The company of which you are secretary makes components for cars. Business has fallen off lately and the board has decided that it will have to dismiss 120 employees during the next five weeks. explanatory memorandum to the board regarding any legal requirements there may be in terms of:

(a) notification of the redundancies;

(b) selection of employees for redundancy;

(c) amounts of compensation that may be involved;

(d) the consultation requirements.