Risk to employers of more backdated holiday pay claims
The Supreme Court has provided guidance on the way in which UK employers must calculate holiday pay for “part year workers.” The Court held that workers who are only employed for part of the year, but whose contract lasts for the full year, are entitled to a full years’ worth of statutory holiday entitlement, 5.6 […]
CJRS Treasury Direction Update
Firstly, what on earth is a CJRS Treasury Direction? This is a direction which forms part of the legal framework behind the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (“CJRS”). The first CJRS Treasury Direction was published on 15 April 2020 and as you can imagine, a number of amendments and updates have been made since. The latest […]
Redundancy: A Business Owner’s Perspective
Making decisions that result in an employee losing their job is tough because most business owners are connected with their people on some level. When cuts have to be made, it can feel like you’ve failed and that you should have done something differently to avoid letting anyone go; that you’re a bad business person. […]
The Travel Lottery
Following a recent increase in flare-ups of Covid-19 across the world, the Government is imposing restrictions to those travelling abroad, with very little notice. Subsequently, thousands of people in the UK have found themselves having to self-isolate after returning to the UK from other countries. A significant number of people have been caught out by […]
The R Word
Apart from those that have already mutually decided that their relationship is coming to an end, redundancy is not pleasant experience for the majority of people.
Requiring employees to take holiday during furlough
Employers, you can now require employees to take holiday during furlough! Furloughed employees are continuing to accrue statutory holiday entitlements (and any additional holiday provided for under their contract of employment). Subsequently, this could result in a number of employees accruing a total of 8 months’ holiday! The Government has recently published guidance stating that […]
BREAKING NEWS: HMRC provides clarity on the furlough scheme requirements
It has been a matter of some debate over the past few weeks as to whether or not employers needed a written agreement from an employee to cease all work in order to be able to claim under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. This arose as a result of a discrepancy between the Treasury Direction, […]
Hot off the press: HMRC’s amendment to the Coronavirus Job Retention scheme
HMRC have just announced that they have changed the qualifying date when an employee has to be on employer’s payroll to benefit from the furlough scheme. This has been changed to 19th March 2020 when it was previously 28th February 2020. Some would say this welcome announcement comes after a lot of backlash. This announcement […]
New points-based immigration system to be introduced
Being part of the EU meant that as a member state, we enjoyed the free movement of people and goods within the EU, i.e. we could travel freely between each member state as we pleased. Following our departure from the EU, the Home Office have announced a new points-based immigration system which will come into […]
The Good Work Plan… Remember that?
In the chaos that has engulfed employment law in the past few weeks and months with coronavirus, the date of the 6th April may have slipped your mind. So, that’s why are giving you a quick refresher on what you need to know about the Good Work Plan to ensure you put in place the necessary […]