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Flexible Furlough Leave
Posted: 1st June 2020
As of midnight on 24th May 2020, 1 million employers had placed their employees on furlough leave under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS). The total value of claims made was £15 billion and the Government estimates that this has protected around 8.4 million jobs. On 29th May 2020, Rishi Sunak announced the creation of […]
Can a company director be furloughed under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme?
Posted: 9th April 2020
Furlough leave was a concept that was foreign to the majority of the British population just a few weeks ago. However, since the announcement of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme on 20th March 2020, it is now a term synonymous with the COVID-19 pandemic. The government has continued to publish some much-needed guidance on the […]
Furlough Leave & Holidays
Posted: 8th April 2020
Many employers have now taken advantage of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, placing employees on furlough leave to allow them to be eligible to recover a grant of up to £2,500.00 gross per month (or 80% of the employee’s wages, whichever is lower). The guidance on the scheme has been amended twice since it was […]
The Parental Bereavement Leave Regulations 2020
Posted: 6th April 2020
From 6th April 2020, employees who lose a child under the age of 18, or suffer a stillbirth after 24 weeks of pregnancy, are now entitled to two weeks’ statutory leave. Employees can choose to take two separate one-week blocks of leave, as long as it is taken within 56 weeks of the child’s death. […]
Increases in the National Living and Minimum Wage
Posted: 1st April 2020
The Living Wage is a concept and ideal which has been acknowledged by commentators throughout history. President Franklin D. Roosevelt noted that, “no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.”. His capitalist Presidential successors have evidently not been of the […]
Understanding furlough leave
Posted: 30th March 2020
On 20th March 2020, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, introduced furlough leave. Whilst placing an employee on furlough leave is commonly-used in the United States, furlough leave is an entirely new UK legal concept. Currently, if an employer closes its workplace or does not have any work to provide its employees and wanted […]
Business Services Team Update
Posted: 24th March 2020
Following the instruction from our Prime Minister yesterday that we must all stay home to stay safe; never has it been so evident that health and wellbeing is paramount. We take our duty of care to our clients and staff seriously and as such we have adapted our working practices following the outbreak of COVID-19. […]
Constructive Dismissal: Home Secretary Priti Patel labelled as “Bully”
Posted: 20th March 2020
In his resignation speech, the Home Office’s most senior official, Sir Philip Rutnam, made a number of allegations of bullying behaviour against Home Secretary, Priti Patel. Amongst those allegations, Sir Rutnam complained that Ms Patel was routinely observed to have been, “swearing” at staff, “belittling people”, and, “making unreasonable and repeated demands”. Sir Rutnam has […]
To trade or not to trade…that is the question!
Posted: 19th March 2020
Directors around the country are facing unprecedented problems following the outbreak of COVID-19 in the UK. There are natural concerns to health; the economy and now with schools due to close and talk of a London ‘lock down’ the issues are rising. Unfortunately, there is no ‘one size fits’ all solution on whether to trade […]
Settlement Agreement meetings by telephone or Skype
Posted: 18th March 2020
Do you have a Settlement Agreement? We offer telephone or Skype meetings in which to discuss your Settlement Agreement remotely, in an effort to assist the Government’s Coronavirus COVID-19 suppression policy. If you are at risk of redundancy and have a Settlement Agreement, or if you need any other employment advice, we are offering telephone […]
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