A recent Tribunal case has found that a colleague who was excluded from a works night out organised by colleagues amounted to a form of victimisation. The Tribunal Court found [...]
It was announced on Friday (17h December) that the Government is making a temporary change to the rules around self-certification periods and sickness. Presently employees can self-certificate for 7 days [...]
After the 1st January 2021, there will be new rules relating to the employment of new EU, EEA or Swiss citizens and other overseas nationals in UK based roles. We [...]
Following the Government announcement on 31st October regarding the proposed period of lockdown starting on Thursday 5th November through to December 2nd we have pulled together some notes on three main [...]
As the impact of Covid 19 washes through the economy and employers get a clear picture of how their business needs to be shaped to reflect customer needs, the [...]
With the announcement that furlough is going to be extended in some form or another till the end of September I have dropped some notes below that may be useful [...]
NOTE The Government Job Retention Scheme is designed to reduce the need for redundancy, therefore Tribunals are likely to take a dim view on any employer that leaps to [...]
Furlough has now become embedded in the UK business dictionary as part of our normal vocabulary. Since the Government announcement that furlough would be introduced the rules around it have [...]
