Employment Law Updates

The coronavirus Statutory Sick Pay Scheme launches online on 26 May 2020, which will enable employers with less than 250 employees, or tax agents acting on behalf of employers, to claim back coronavirus-related Statutory Sick Pay. Employers are eligible to use the scheme if: they’re claiming for an employee who’s eligible for sick pay due […]

The Chancellor Rishi Sunak has today announced the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) will be extended for four months, until the end of October 2020 but in doing so, he said he will ask companies to start sharing the cost of the scheme from August 2020. Until the end of July, there are no changes, […]

In early May 2020, Acas published Disciplinary and grievance procedures during the coronavirus pandemic which states that existing employment law and the Acas Code of Practice on Disciplinary and Grievance Procedures (the Acas Code) continue to apply during the COVID-19 pandemic.  The guidance notes that it is for an employer to decide if it would be fair and reasonable […]

On 30 April 2020, HMRC published another updated version of its guidance on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme which will directly affect the ability of employers who inherited employees through the operation of a TUPE transfer between 28 February and 19 March 2020. Under the current version of the Employers’ CJRS guidance , an employer can claim […]

On 17 April 2020, we highlighted that the latest government guidance made clear that, in addition to written confirmation by an employer, the employee’s agreement to be furloughed must also be recorded in writing in order to be eligible to claim under the CJRS and that it would not be sufficient to rely on implied […]

The latest government guidance on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) now states that an employee can only be furloughed if the employer and employee have agreed in writing (which may be in an electronic form such as an email) that the employee will cease all work in relation to their employment”. For quite some time now the Employers’ […]

At the daily No 10 briefing, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab confirmed that Lockdown restrictions in the UK will continue for “at least” another three weeks Mr Raab went on to say a review had concluded relaxing the measures would risk harming public health and the economy. The extension of the UK lockdown will have both immediate […]

HMRC have confirmed that the CJRS Portal will go live on Monday 20th April 2020 with the first reimbursements made on 30 April. You’ll need to provide the following to make a claim: The bank account number and sort code you’d like us to use when we pay your claim. The name and phone number of the […]