Scots need stiffer corporate killing law

With weakened legislation on corporate killing set to come into force across the UK next month, the Scottish TUC (STUC) and campaign group Families Against Corporate Killers have urged the Scottish Parliament to introduce stiffer penalties for senior managers whose actions or inaction cause deaths at work.

STUC general secretary Grahame Smith has expressed “deep disappointment” with the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act, which will not hold individual directors to account when it is implemented on 8 April.