Coronavirus: Legal News Updates for Employers

EMPLOYMENT LAW UPDATE

We will post regular articles here, soundbites, suggestions, legal news and helpful information for employers that you will find valuable during the COVID-19 outbreak. 

You don't have to trawl through all the news websites so make sense of it all, at Lawson-West we provide a quick summary and snapshot to help you follow the key employment news items and their implications on a regular basis.

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Recent Articles: 

• Living with Covid: employers and employees get to grips with Covid in the workplace [25 Mar 2022]

• Fire and Rehire Employment Tactics and New Legislation pending [15 Feb 2022]

• Reduced Sick Pay for Unvaccinated Staff [12 Jan 2022]

• Employment Legislation and Changes in 2022 [12 Jan 2022]

• Omicron & Plan B - Employer Considerations for Employees and Workplaces [10 Dec 2021]

• This week is Anti-Bullying Week - One Kind Word [16 Nov 2021] 

• Let’s Discuss Men’s Mental Health [16 Nov 2021] 

• Leicester: Mother of Down’s syndrome child wins constructive unfair dismissal case [2 Nov 2021]

• Halloween Horror Stories Employment Law: an accountancy employer fails to communicate their new Hybrid Working policy [29 Oct 2021] 

• End of Furlough - managing the transition and avoiding redundancies [15 Sep 2021]

• Furlough as an alternative to Redundancy? New Tribunal case clarifies employers' options [2 Sep 2021]

• Trends: The Top 5 Employment Law Claims [6 Aug 2021]

• Furlough scheme: employers now contribute 20% of furloughed wages from 1 August [4 Aug 2021]

• Employment Contracts:  Enforcing Restrictive Covenants [26 July 2021]

• NEW! Going Back to Work on 19th July - What Will It Be Like?  [16 July 2021]

• Immigration: Have employees missed the EU Settlement Scheme deadline of 30 June? [12 July]

• What is employment mediation? How to resolve a workplace dispute [12 July 2021]

• Furlough scheme: employers contribute 10% of wages from 1 July [30 June 2021]

• "We've Left the EU! Immigration, Employment and Contracts Post-Brexit"
  [6 Jan 2021]

• See our 'Coronavirus Business Impact Survey' survey results here [Dec 2020]

• Pregnancy and returning to the workplace [7 Sep 2020]
  
  
• From October employers will struggle to pay their staff - Are redundancies inevitable? [18 Aug]
  
  
• Government's latest updates on Flexible Furlough Scheme, (CJRS) [14 Aug]
  
  
• Return to work childcare issues - 7 Steps for Employers [30 July]
  
  
• Smaller Businesses - New ERDF Funding and Kickstart goverment programmes [30 Jul]
  
  
• 14-Day Travel Quarantine Period - Who Pays Employers or Employees?  [30 July]
  
  
• Redundancy:  3 Mistakes Employers Make [14 Jul]
  
  
• Government introduces 1-metre rule and shielding restrictions eased [23 Jun]
  
  
• Is Your Commercial Office Now a Waste of Space? [12 Jun]
  
  
• Redundancies or Flexible Furlough Scheme? That is the Question [9 Jun]

• Coronavirus Sick Pay Rebate Scheme [22 May]

• Calculating Annual Leave for Employees during Lockdown [18 May]

• Webinar Speaker Slides - In April 2020, during the Coronavirus outbreak, Vaishali Thakerar was a guest speaker at a RICS webinar speaking to 260 delegates about Covid-19 employment law implications in the workplace. Click here to see the story and a copy of the helpful slides from the webinar.
  
  
• New !  11 Government Business Support Schemes - What Support Is Available to My Business, and How Do I Access It?
  Learn more about each scheme in this easy to read PDF document and summary chart...[3 April 2020]
  
  
• What is Furlough Leave? [24 March]
  
  
• How to make a claim for Furlough Leave payments from HMRC under the Job Retention Scheme [29 April]
  
  
• Employment FAQs [25 March]
  Helpful Questions and Answers to help employers regarding the implications of this week's Coronavirus employment changes.
  
  

Whether you are employed or self-employed, if you have any questions or concerns regarding the recent Coronavirus changes affecting your job and you'd like to discuss your employment and changes affecting you, please contact Lawson-West in total confidence. We're here to support you with employment advice at this time and we provide a free initial conversation to help guide you in the right direction.

Please contact one of our employment team members. We're here to support you with employment advice at this time.

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