It is likely that with the upcoming teacher strikes in July some employees will either be asking to take annual leave, unpaid parental leave or family and dependant leave (which is either paid or unpaid depending on the company’s policy). This...
On Wednesday 10 May, the Department for Business and Trade announced proposed changes to a number of employment law measures as part of their policy paper titled “Smarter Regulation to Grow the Economy”. This initial paper sets out a package...
Welcome With Spring having (apparently) sprung, welcome to this month’s Update. My mention of the time of year is (you’ll be unsurprised to hear) a clumsy segue into some news from France about spring cleaning, housework and whether shirking...
I appreciate there are now greater concerns world-wide, but you’ve probably had as much as you can take in terms of existential misery, none more so than the poor and brave Ukrainians. So, we’ll concentrate on employment law and pretend for just...
Welcome to our first Update of 2022. Happy New Year and this year ‘things can only get better’ (as Brian Cox once sang in his band D-Ream before he became Professor Brian Cox and all-round smiley universe expert). We say goodbye to another year...
On 21 December 2021, Chancellor Rishi Sunak set out a £1bn fund to help businesses hit by the significant rise in COVID cases: Restaurants, bars, cinemas and theatres will be eligible (in the coming weeks) to apply for a one-off grant of up to...
Well, it’s been a while. We postponed our newsletter while we were sending out COVID updates but now, with a new year, a new dawn and sunlit uplands (hopefully) hoving into view, we feel it is perhaps time to start getting back to normal – the...
Updated 23rd December 2020 Boris Johnson announced on Saturday 31st October that the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS), set to end on that day, would be extended. The Job Support Scheme (and the Job Retention Bonuses) has been postponed...
Following the introduction of ‘flexible furloughing’, the Government has published a third Treasury Direction (the “Direction”) concerning the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (the “Scheme”). Before providing more detail on the Direction, here is...
Video 3 – Annual Leave In this episode, we’ll be looking at the very difficult topic of how annual leave interacts with the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (or furlough scheme for short) and answering some of the frequently asked...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared Coronavirus (COVID-19) a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, and on 28th February 2020 it raised its global assessment from high to very high. The Coronavirus is having an...
The following guidance for employees is being reviewed and updated daily and does not constitute legal advice. The government guidance is constantly evolving as the Coronavirus pandemic develops. As such, you are advised to keep up to date with...
