Employment Law Updates

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 […]

As lockdown measures are gradually being eased, we are delighted to announce the reopening of our offices from Tuesday  4 August 2020 and will resume seeing new and/or existing clients strictly on a pre-booked appointment only basis from that date. We are phasing the return of staff to our offices, whilst ensuring health and safety for both […]

The confusion and concern created by Paragraph 2.2 of the third iteration of the Treasury direction, which stated that a claim should only be made where the payment will be used to continue employment, has hopefully been alleviated by HMRC after this morning’s update to the guidance. Background We recently highlighted that the third Treasury direction appeared to […]

Although the CJRS has now been extended to 31 October 2020, the government has made it clear that it will expect employers to make a financial contribution towards furloughed employees’ furlough pay from 1 August 2020. Furloughing employees beyond that date will therefore come at a cost to employers and many are considering whether they can afford to retain […]