Additional bank holiday announced for the funeral of HRH Queen Elizabeth II
An additional bank holiday has been announced for Monday 19th September 2022, the date of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s...
Employment Law Briefing Summer 2022 Part 2
In our latest Employment Law Briefing, our team offer Employment Law advice on 'Fire and rehire', fair dismissal, discrimination and...
Summer Employment Law Briefing
Constructive Dismissal and the 'Last Straw' Doctrine Craig v Abellio Ltd: on 10 September 2021, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT)...
Spring Employment Law Briefing
In this Employment Law Update Elizabeth Judson outlines the recent rates and limits increases and a number of recent cases...
Has P&O Ferries breached employment law?
Has P&O Ferries breached employment law by firing 800 UK-based sailors and replacing them with agency staff? This is the...
Employment Law Update and What’s New for 2022
Elizabeth Judson and Tom Evans outline some of the recent employment law changes. Living with COVID plan - Timetable of...
IR35 for the Private Sector perspectives from Employment Law and Tax
The ‘IR35’ rules, introduced in 2017 were designed to prevent the avoidance of tax and national insurance contributions (NICs) through...
Employment Law Newsletter
In our latest Employment newsletter Tom Evans and Elizabeth Judson update on COVID related case law Car and uniform payments...
IR35, employment status and rules & regulations
On 06 April 2021, delayed a year due to Covid 19, the Off-Payroll Working rules (IR35) changed, rules designed to...
Returning to the office post-pandemic – the employment law implications
It is no longer a criminal offence for an employee to leave home in order to go to the office...
Further Furlough Scheme Update
The furlough scheme has been further updated to extend it to 30 April 2021. A new Treasury Direction has been...
Furlough Scheme Update
HM Revenue & Customs has updated its guidance on the furlough scheme to state that employers can furlough employees whose...
Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme update
The Chancellor has announced today that, in order to give businesses and employees certainty into the New Year, the Coronavirus...
New rules on Acas Early Conciliation
New rules on Acas Early Conciliation Prior to today (1st December) the Acas Early Conciliation process, (which a prospective claimant...
Legal advice – Protected conversations: Question & Answer
Protected conversations - legal advice During our North West HR Group, we had a short Q&A session. During this session...
Employment law changes as the Brexit Transition ends (on 31 December 2020)
Brexit Employment law changes Most EU-derived employment legislation will remain applicable in the UK after 31 December 2020 for an...
Employment & HR Legal Updates: Employee experiencing paranoid delusions was not disabled
Employment & HR Legal Updates In Sullivan v Bury Street Capital Limited, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (‘EAT’) has upheld an...
Constructive unfair dismissal and acceptance of breach
In the case of Chemcem Scotland Limited v Ure, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (‘EAT’) held that an employee’s failure to...
Justifying discrimination on the grounds of cost
It has long been understood that cost alone cannot be used as justification for something which would otherwise amount to...
Detailed guidance on ‘right of access’
The Information Commissioners Officer has published detailed guidance on the ‘Right of Access’. This provides clarification for employers on how...
Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme extended
The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (‘CJRS’) has been extended to 31 March 2021. A summary of key points arising out...