SSP - Temporary change to Rules on Fit Notes
Normally, employers can insist that employees provide them with medical evidence in the event that they are sick for a period of 7 days or more as a conditio...
Normally, employers can insist that employees provide them with medical evidence in the event that they are sick for a period of 7 days or more as a conditio...
The Department for Work and Pensions has announced plans to increase a number of statutory benefit payments; including statutory maternity, paternity, adopti...
The COVID-19 SSP Rebate Scheme will close with effect from 30 September 2021.
This scheme has allowed employers with fewer than 250 employees (as o...
It is unlawful to employ someone who does not have the right to reside and work in the UK or who is working in breach of their conditions of stay. Employers...
It was widely reported on 6 August 2021 that CNN dismissed three employees for attending on...
The government passed legislation on 22 July requiring CQC-regulated care homes in E...
An issue for many employers during the pandemic has been how to deal with concerns raised by employees about health and safety and returning to the workplace...
It is unlawful to employ someone who does not have the right to reside and the right to work in the UK or is working in breach of their conditions of stay. E...
Post-termination restrictive covenants are clauses in employment contracts designed to prohibit employees from taking certain steps after their employment ha...
In Smith v Pimlico Plumber Ltd, the Employment Appeal Tribunal has confirmed that any worker who has been permitted to take annual leave, but has no...
From 17 March 2021, Uber has agreed to give its UK drivers a guaranteed minimum wage, holiday pay and a pension. This decision is a direct result of the Supr...
In Royal Mencap Society v Tomlinson-Blake and another case, the Supreme Court has held that ca...
Shielding is to be paused in England and Wales with effect from 1 April 2021.
The clinically extremely vulnerable were last advised to shield in En...
1 April: National Minimum Wage
From 1 April 2021, the National Living Wage will increase from £8.72 to &pou...
In conjunction with WR Partners, Lanyon Bowdler will be providing a free webinar covering the changes to IR35 that wi...
For the purposes of the Equality Act 2010 anything done by an employee in the course of their employment is treated as having also been done by the employer....
The rise of zero hours contracts was recently the subject of an ITV news report and wide press coverage. A zero hours contract is so-called because it is int...
The Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, has announced that the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme is being extended for an extra month, until the end of April 2021.
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You might be aware of the new (quite short) timescales for lodging claims with HMRC for payments under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (“CJRS&rdqu...
On 13 November, HM Treasury published its fifth Read More
As promised, the government updated its guidance on the furlough scheme on 10 November. The latest guidance for employers is Read More
The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (“CJRS”), also known as the furlough scheme, will remain open not just until December, as originally announc...
On 31 October 2020, HM Treasury announced that the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme ("CJRS"), which was due to come to an end that day, would be ex...
HM Treasury has today announced that the Government contribution to employers’ wage costs under the Job Support Scheme (“JSS”) for open bus...
On 24 September 2020, the Chancellor announced the Job Support Scheme (“JSS”), as explained Read More
On 8 July 2020, the Chancellor announced that employers will be paid a £1,000 Job Retention Bonus (“JRB”) for each employee they bring back...
Public Health England (“PHE”) has updated its guidance on shielding and protecting people who are clinically extremely vulnerable from Covid-19.<...
The Read More
HM Treasury has published a Read More
On 31 July 2020, HMRC published a policy paper providing fur...
The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy Read More
The UK chief medical officer has announced that those with officially recognised symptoms of coronavirus, or who have otherwise tested positive for the virus...
The Government has stipulated that all those travelling into the UK from Spain, including the Balearic and Canary Islands, from 26 July onwards must self-iso...
We have been asked regularly since the inception of the CJRS whether employees who are furloughed can be made redundant and, if so, whether a grant can be cl...
On 25 June HM Treasury issued a further Read More
The government updated its guidance on its “furlough scheme”, the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS), on 12 June to reflect changes announce...
The government announced on 29 May that from 1 July the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (the “furlough scheme”) can be utilised only in respect...
Under the Test and Trace system that launched on 28 May, a person who has been noti...
On Friday 22 May 2020 the Treasury published a further Direction (dated 20 May) modifying the legal framework for the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS)...
The Chancellor has announced reforms to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS). We are awaiting updates to the Treasury Direction (the formal rule...
A new online service will be launched on 26 May for eligible employers to recover coronavirus-related statutory sick pay (SSP) that they have paid to their e...
The government has published guidance on workers' entit...
The Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, has announced today that the Job Retention Scheme will be extended to the end of October.
There are to be no changes i...
Entitlement to, and the rate of, maternity allowance and statutory maternity, paternity, adoption, shared parental and parental bereavement pay depend on an...
After it was announced on 17 April that the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (“the Scheme”) has been extended from 31 May 2020 t...
On 16 April the legislation relating to statutory sick pay (“SSP”) was amended, with retrospective effect from 13 March, so that a person will be...
HM Treasury has announced that the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (the ‘furlough scheme’) has been extended from 31 May 2020 to the end of June...
The government has published the fourth version of its guidance on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (“the Scheme”). The full guidance for emp...
The government published its third update to guidance on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (“the Scheme”) late on 9 April. Th...
The government last published updated guidance on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (“the Scheme”) on Read More
The government has published further guidance for apprentices, as well as for employers, training providers, end-point assessment organisations and external...
The government published update guidance on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (“the Scheme”) on 4 April.
The main points are these:-...
National Minimum Wage rates are to increase from 1 April.
The National Living Wage (for over...
The Agricultural Wages (Wales) Order 2020 was made on 27 March 2020 and will come into force on 1 April 2020. This Order replaces the Agricultural Wages (Wal...
In light of the coronavirus outbreak, the Chancellor made a series of announcements in relation to statutory sick pay (“SSP”) in his budget addre...
On 20 March the chancellor announced a package of temporary measures to support people and businesses in the wake of disruption caused by the Covid-19 outbre...
An employment tribunal has held for the first time, in the case of Dewhurst v Revisecatch Ltd, that workers who are not engaged under contracts of employment...
The government announced yesterday that the extension of off-payroll working rules to medium and large companies in the private sector is being postponed unt...
Employers have a duty to keep sufficient records to establish that their workers have received the national minimum wage. These records must be kept for thre...
Employment Tribunal compensation limits will increase on 6 April 2019.
The maximum amount of a week's pay, used to calculate statutory redundan...
An issue I frequently come across is where an employee, due to creditable performance in their current role, is promoted into a ma...
The European Court of Human Rights ruled yesterday that it is possible for employers to justify reading workers’ private online messages.
On 26 July 2017, the Supreme Court ruled in a case brought by UNISON that Employment Tribunal Fees were unlawful since their introduction on 29 July 2013 and...
A client of Lanyon Bowdler has had her success in her Employment Tribunal claims against previous employer Marks & Spencer published in the Read More
Businesses with employees who could potentially be a commercial threat should they leave their employment often make use of restrictive covenants to restrict...
An employment tribunal has held that payments in lieu of untaken statutory holiday on termination of employment must be calculated to reflect normal pay.
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As we have reported previously here, on 26 July 2017 the Supreme Court held that the...
