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The Taylor Review and Good Work Plan have led to a large number of proposals and consultations over the last few years. A number of these consultations have focused on proposals to better support working families...

Employers will have been sent links on Friday evening by HMRC to some newly published calculation guidance to assist them with making claims under the Scheme in time for the opening of the portal today...

The Treasury has now published a formal direction to HMRC which sets out the legal basis for the administration of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.  The previously published guidance (now revised for the fourth time) needs to be read in the light of this direction...

The measures being taken to try to reduce the spread of Covid-19 have meant that more employees are working from home than ever before. For some, home working is a concept they were already used to. For others, it is a big change which presents many challenges...

A number of clarifications on pension contributions to defined contribution (DC) schemes have now been made following the announcement of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (JRS)...

The Government has now published sector-based guidance on how to implement social distancing in the workplace. The generic employers' guidance on COVID-19 has also been revised to offer more detail on the practical steps businesses...

The Supreme Court has given two more important rulings on vicarious liability. The first looks at whether the relationship between a GP and Barclays Bank was “akin to employment” when he was engaged to conduct medical examinations for their staff...

On 19 March, the Presidents of the employment tribunals in England and Wales and Scotland directed that all hearings listed to start by 26 June should be converted to case management hearings by telephone or “other electronic means”...

New emergency regulations came into force on 26 March, which relax the normal rules on the carrying over of annual leave. Workers will now be able to carry over up to 4 weeks’ annual leave into the next two leave years if they are not able to take it because of COVID-19...

The Home Office is continuing to issue further guidance on the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) on immigration requirements.   Key recent developments include...

A few weeks ago we reported on a number of changes that were due to come in on 6 April 2020. Since then, the country’s priorities have changed drastically, with the outbreak of COVID-19...

The Coronavirus Act 2020 came into force on 25 March 2020. The Act makes changes to existing legislation to allow public bodies UK-wide to respond effectively to the COVID-19 outbreak...