NEW RULES ON STAYING AT HOME AND AWAY FROM OTHERS The single most important action we can all take, in fighting coronavirus, is to stay at home in order to protect the NHS and save lives. When we reduce our day-to-day contact with other people, we will...
Guidance on the COVID-19 Pandemic Job Retention Scheme Dated: 23 / 3 / 2020 Information may change as the scheme and events change What is the Job Retention Scheme? The purpose of the scheme is to save jobs and income during the pandemic by offering up to 80%...
Our team of employment Solicitors and HR experts have gathered the most recent employment / HR related queries on the COVID-19 outbreak and put them into an easy to read set of Q&A’s for our clients and network – this is being updated as we...
Are you concerned about being able to provide your staff with enough work? Are cash flow issues making you wonder whether there are options to providing full pay to your staff? We explain what is meant by LAY OFF andSHORT TIME WORKING and share with...
With the current uncertainty over Coronavirus, the biggest issue for our clients this week is around managing changes to the working environment as required, and responding, in real time, to the changing requirements as updates are issued by the Government and other authorities. As at...
Today sees the Prime Minster chairing the government’s emergency Cobra committee looking at preparedness for the COVID-19 virus. With Professor Paul Cosford, Medical Director from Public Health England, warning that transmission of the virus is “highly likely”, we all need to be reviewing our approach...
April 2020 will see the UK being a world-first in giving working parents who tragically lose a child under the age of 18, or who have a stillbirth after 24 weeks of pregnancy, a statutory right to two weeks parental bereavement leave thanks to the...
The Good Work Plan What is it and who does it effect? The government's Good Work Plan Policy was published on 17 December 2018, setting out what the government described as "the biggest package of workplace reforms for over 20 years" – it effects all employers in some way...
Relationships and work, not an ideal match! The high-profile case of where McDonalds fired its British CEO, Steve Easterbrook, after he admitted a relationship at work, shows that some employers are simply taking a zero-tolerance policy. Despite Mr Easterbrook turning around the fortunes of the company...