Employment Law Updates

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 […]

The Chancellor has produced a third iteration of the Treasury Direction in relation to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) and this was published on Friday 26 June 2020. The new Direction sets out the rules that will apply under the amended CJRS from 1 July 2020, which allows for ‘flexible furlough’ arrangements, until 31 October 2020, […]

On Friday night HMRC released details of the flexible furlough scheme.  The most significant change is that the minimum three-week period for furlough has been removed (as of 1 July 2020).  There is no minimum period, although any claim through the CJRS portal must be in respect of a minimum one-week period (i.e. employers can only put […]

The Chancellor has announced that parents on statutory maternity and paternity leave who return to work will be eligible for furlough scheme even after 10 June cut-off date. We confirmed yesterday that Employers who had not already furloughed a member of staff who they may want to furlough in the future had until yesterday (10 […]