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Working from home in a Pandemic
On 22 September 2020 Boris Johnson said: "we are once again asking office workers who can work from home to do so." He did not say that office workers must work from home, merely that if it's possible, they can work from home. This is very different to the instruction...
Job Support Scheme: who is eligible?
On 24 September 2020, Rishi Sunak announced another support package for small and medium sized businesses, the Job Support Scheme, . The scheme starts on 1 November 2020 and will run for 6 months. It can be used by businesses who did not use the furlough scheme as...
Alf Murphy appointed to sit on a prestigious UK Employment Tribunal Panel
Family-run HR Consultancy Employment Law Solutions’ founder, Alf Murphy was appointed to the Upper Tribunal (Information Rights) on 17th September 2020. This comes on top of his appointment to the Employment Tribunal in January of this year. The appointment is a huge...
What is a Settlement Agreement?
Sometimes the relationship between you and an employee simply breaks down. How do you end that relationship? There are only 5️ potentially fair reasons to end the employment of an employee with over 2 years service and a simple breakdown in a relationship is not one...
Coronavirus – Isolation and testing in the Workplace
In the rapidly changing circumstances the Coronavirus Pandemic has created much uncertainty and as the R number goes above 1 again, we have been receiving questions such as: "My employee was tested positive, they have been rested and it has come back negative can they...
HOW TO : STAND-ALONE REDUNDANCY
Redundancy is when you dismiss an employee because you no longer need anyone to do their job. This might be because your business is; changing what it does; doing things in a different way, for example using new machinery and changing location or closing down. MYTH...
Access our services for FREE through Government Grant
Let us help your business for FREE! The Government has launched the Small Business COVID Recovery Scheme. Under this scheme each local business hub has an allocation out of a fund of £20m to give small businesses a grant to recover from Covid-19. These grants are for...
Furlough can pay for annual leave!
Did you know that you can re-furlough an employee when they take annual leave? This means that employers can reclaim up to 80% of the holiday pay. If you have to pay it out, you may as well claim some of it back! Our advice is to use the scheme for all it's worth!...
Employment Tribunals – increases and delays due to Covid-19
It is fair to say that there has been steady increase in Tribunal Claims since the abolition of fees in July 2017. We have previously detailed this increase but cases brought by single claimants increased again in the first quarter of 2020 by 18% (year to year comparison).