COVID-19 Newsletters
Care Home Workers And Compulsory Vaccinations
From 11th November 2021, anyone entering a care home in England will need to have received a full dose of an approved Covid vaccine unless: 1. They are themselves residents of the care home; 2. They are friends or relatives of residents; 3. They are providing...
Future Working Arrangements: Key Advice
Many employers are now making key decisions about when and where they ask people to work in future. For example, Spotify has decided that staff can work from whatever location they choose, KPMG has opted to ask staff to work 2 days per week in the office and...
Will Working From Home Stick?
Whilst we can now see the light at the end of the coronavirus tunnel with the roll out of three vaccines, it’s still going to be a difficult few months for us all. The issue of what’s going to happen to those staff who have been working from home since the...
Affinity and Coronavirus Health Protection Regulations In TSB
By refusing to change its retail service offering to customers, TSB is breaching the Health Protections Regulations, which put the lockdown rules into law. TSB has so far refused to change its retail strategy to reflect the fact that we are now in a national...
COVID Update: Key Developments That May Affect You
As you’ll no doubt have read in the press, the Government has made several key announcements on how it plans to address the rising number of Covid-19 cases and how it plans to mitigate the effect on jobs. 1. The Job Support Scheme This scheme, as the Government...
Flexible Furlough
What’s Changing? The Government has announced that from 1st July, the furlough scheme is changing to a flexible scheme, where employers can bring furloughed staff back to work for any period of time, on any shift pattern, whilst still claiming a grant for the...
Covid-19 – Further Government Announcement
The government has finally published detailed guidance of what it expects from employers in various work settings and 5 key actions it expects employers to implement as soon as practical:"1. Work from home, if you canAll reasonable steps should be taken by...
Covid-19 – Further Government Announcement
The government has now published the more detailed brief referred to in the Prime Minister’s speech yesterday; the full document can be read here. What is most noticeable about the government’s brief is that it contains very little detail on the key issues,...
Government Covid-19 Announcement Sunday 10th May
This evening the Prime Minister announced what he described as the Government’s plans for handling the “next phase” of the Covid-19 pandemic and a set of options for England. Key employment points of his announcement were: people who can work from home should...
COVID-19: Updated Guidance On Furlough
The Government has confirmed that employees can start a new job if they have been furloughed. This means that potentially, an individual can earn 80% of a salary from an existing, furloughed job and 100% of a salary from a new job. Specifically, the Government...
COVID-19: What’s ‘Furlough’ and the ‘Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme’?
The Government has introduced the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, under which all UK employers will be able to access grants to continue paying part of their employees’ salaries, for employees who would otherwise have been made redundant following the...
COVID-19: Should You Be Going To Work?
All our advice on the key issues can be found on the COVID-19 Advice Hub section of our website, which can be viewed here. Following the PM’s announcement on Monday 23rd March about staying at home (click here for the Government’s instruction) some members are...
COVID-19: Schools Refusing To Accept Key Worker Children
We’ve received numerous calls from members who have been told by schools that, in their opinion, the members are not key workers, or they don’t qualify for school childcare because only one parent is a key worker. It seems that cases are largely being decided...
COVID-19: Vulnerable People
As at 20th March 2020, the Government is advising those who are at increased risk of severe illness from COVID-19 to be particularly stringent in following social distancing measures.This group includes those who:1. are aged 70 or older (regardless of medical...
COVID-19: School Provision and Key Workers
Are You A Key Worker?Schools, and all childcare providers, have been asked by the Government to continue to provide care for a limited number of children, including those whose parents are critical to the COVID-19 response.The Government has published a list of...
COVID-19 (Coronavirus): Statutory Sick Pay Entitlement
Self-IsolationThe Government’s latest advice (as at 13th March 2020) is to stay at home if you have either:a high temperaturea new continuous coughYou will also need to self-isolate if you have been diagnosed with COVID-19 or have returned from an affected...
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