Employment Law

• Providing a safe working environment during the coronavirus outbreak and the possible consequences of failing to protect your employees

  • PostedJune 4, 2020

  With the lockdown easing slightly and more people encouraged to return to work, you need to be ensuring you are providing a COVID secure workplace. The Government has issued guidance...

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• Extension to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (“furlough scheme”)

  • PostedJune 1, 2020

  On 12 May, the Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced that the Coronavirus Job Retention, or “furlough” Scheme was to be extended, providing additional support for wages until October. In that announcement,...

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• The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme – Furloughed Workers

  • PostedMay 27, 2020

  On Friday 20 March 2020, the Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced significant support for businesses in the UK to deal with the effects of COVID-19. The most significant from an employment...

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• How do we deal with holiday for those on furlough leave?

  • PostedMay 27, 2020

  HMRC updated their guidance for employees’ and have provided much-needed clarity on how to deal with annual leave periods whilst someone is on furlough leave. We know that holiday entitlement...

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• Survey suggests 86% of businesses will be more prepared to allow home working post COVID-19

  • PostedMay 18, 2020

  A straw poll conducted by Ashtons Legal suggests that only 13% of businesses have seen their revenue unaffected by the pandemic. 43% think it will take them between seven and...

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• Working safely during coronavirus (COVID-19): employers, employees and the self-employed

  • PostedMay 12, 2020

  The Government has published “Working Safely during the Coronavirus (COVID-19)”. We will be reviewing this from a regulatory and employment law perspective at our Ashtons Legal Webinar on Thursday 21...

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• Extension to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (“furlough scheme”) until end of October

  • PostedMay 12, 2020

  On 12 May 2020, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced that the furlough scheme in its current form will be extended until 31 July 2020. There will be no changes to the...

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• Webinar – Returning to work in a COVID-19 era: a Q&A

  • PostedMay 7, 2020

  As the UK has passed the peak of infections, employers around the country are asking, how do we return our staff to work? COVID-19 has required all businesses in every...

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• Practical considerations for the self-employed

  • PostedMay 6, 2020

  The Treasury has published a Direction to HMRC to give statutory footing to the government’s self-employed income support scheme. Income Support Scheme (ISS) Similar to the support which is being...

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• Twitter Poll – Will your business allow homeworking once the lockdown is lifted?

  • PostedApril 21, 2020

  Please complete our Twitter poll about homeworking following the relaxation of the COVID-19 lockdown. Will your business be more prepared to allow homeworking once the lockdown is lifted? #remoteworking #coronavirus...

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• COVID19 – “Vulnerable” but expected to work?

  • PostedApril 17, 2020

  This is an update to our original article posted on 20 March 2020. I am “vulnerable” due to my health, age or pregnancy, but my employer expects me to come...

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• COVID-19 – employment guidance for parents and employers of parents

  • PostedApril 17, 2020

  This is an update – our original article was posted 19 March 2020. Following the Government’s advice of 18 March 2020 that all schools in the UK will be closed...

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