Employer Knowledgebase

Today’s announcement has left many Employers with non-essential offices wondering whether they now need to close. We outline their options and considerations.

As lockdown restrictions began to ease across the UK many employers started to consider reopening businesses and bringing staff back into workplaces, but with the recent spike in COVID-19 cases many are rethinking their position. While the UK government called for a coordinated approach to the lifting of lockdown measures, differences have emerged between the […]

In what many have described as a ‘bizarre’ decision, Glasgow City Council (GCC) has decided to defund a series of advice agencies in Glasgow at a time when demand for advice and support for issues relating to employment, debt, housing and poverty are likely to be at their highest. The planned cuts from Glasgow City […]

The purpose of the Government’s Job Retention Scheme was to ensure that employers retain and continue to pay staff during the lockdown, but as the impact of COVID continues to bite, are redundancies inevitable? Is Furlough just postponing the inevitable? Since April staff have been entitled to benefit from a paid period of leave, with […]

The coronavirus pandemic has had a severe impact on the economy and it is inevitable that redundancies will be on the rise, but getting this wrong could prove costly for Employers. The Legal Definition of redundancy Redundancy is defined as circumstances where the termination of employment is attributable to the fact that the employer has […]

If you find yourself in a situation where you have been advised by your employer that they want to bring the employment relationship to an end and are issued with a Settlement Agreement and told that you have a set timescale in which to make a decision, the team at Employment Law Services (ELS) can […]

Last week the Government warned against non essential travel to Spain and imposed a 14 day quarantine period on holiday makers returning to the UK. Yesterday Belgium, the Bahamas and Andorra were also added to the list. For many people this has meant cutting their existing holiday short or cancelling their holiday altogether.   Some of […]

We are delighted to announce two key appointments as part of our continued expansion strategy.  Based at our Glasgow offices, Priya Cunningham and Naomi Scrimshire join our multi-award-winning Employment Law Team on 3 August 2020 and will help us to continue to exceed client expectations and deliver service excellence across a full range of employment […]