Employment Law

The employment law landscape has changed considerably as a result of COVID-19.  To help you navigate these new challenges, we have prepared guidance for employers, employees and those who are self-employed.  If you would like to speak to someone about your particular circumstances, please get in touch.

Please click on the links below to read our latest COVID-19 news articles relating to Employment Law. These have been listed in month order with the most recent first:

January 2021

• Building pressure for working parents to be placed on Furlough

December 2020

• Can businesses require employees to get a vaccination?
• BEIS Consultations 
• April 2021 Pay Rates 
• Brexit Implications 
• Employment Tribunals 

November 2020

• Extension to Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS)

September 2020

• Redundancy
• Employees in Quarantine
• Access to work scheme
• Protect Scotland Tracing App
• Job Support Scheme (JSS)
• A new four day working week?
• Plan for jobs: Job Retention Bonus
• Protection of statutory notice and redundancy pay for employees
• CJRS – HMRC enforcement in the event of overpayments
• Coronavirus job retention scheme 

June 2020

• Furlough: The timeline and highlights of the latest publications
• Redundancy in the current climate
• Is flexible working the new norm?

May 2020

• Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) - latest developments
• Working life after lockdown

April

• What Government help is available for the self-employed as a result of COVID-19?
• Updated guidance on Furlough leave

March 2020

• Working from home
• Statutory sick pay (SSP)
• Options other than Furlough leave
• Furlough leave 
• The collision of flexible working, workplace wellbeing and Coronavirus: An Employment perspective