Welcome With Spring having (apparently) sprung, welcome to this month’s Update. My mention of the time of year is (you’ll be unsurprised to hear) a clumsy segue into some news from France about spring cleaning, housework and whether shirking...
I appreciate there are now greater concerns world-wide, but you’ve probably had as much as you can take in terms of existential misery, none more so than the poor and brave Ukrainians. So, we’ll concentrate on employment law and pretend for just...
In January 2022, research showed that the Employment Tribunal had seen a record number of claims relating to flexible working requests: an increase of 52%. It is expected that this increase was largely as a result of the pandemic and increased...
In the case of Hope v British Medical Association, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (‘EAT’) considered the interesting situation relating to the fairness of a dismissal of an employee who had been deemed to have raised vexatious grievances. The...
The tactic of ‘firing and re-hiring’ employees as a means of changing terms and conditions of employment has received a lot of attention over the last year or so. Last year, the Government asked ACAS to investigate the use of these tactics, which...
In July 2021 the government passed Regulations which meant that all employees working in care homes would have to be double vaccinated by 11 November 2021 or otherwise they could no longer be employed in that role. Further Regulations were due to...
The Court of Appeal has recently provided a judgement on the interpretation of the Agency Workers Regulations 2010 (‘AWR 2010’) in the context of the extent to which agency workers should be informed of vacancies by the business where they are...
As has been widely reported, the COVID restrictions in England will be progressively removed between 24th February 2022 and 1st April 2022, following the Government’s new guidance “COVID-19 Response: Living With COVID-19”. In this article, we...
Welcome to our first Update of 2022. Happy New Year and this year ‘things can only get better’ (as Brian Cox once sang in his band D-Ream before he became Professor Brian Cox and all-round smiley universe expert). We say goodbye to another year...
The Regulations On 6 January 2022 the Secretary of State signed into law Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) (No. 2) Regulations 2022 (SI 2022/15); https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/15/made. The...
On Tuesday 4 January, Boris Johnson announced that “Plan B” rules would remain in place. This means the current guidance is such that employees should work from home where they are able to (this has been the guidance since 13 December 2021 in...
With all the talk about whether the UK will reach a Brexit deal before 31 December 2020, it is easy to forget that, whatever happens, the transition period will end on that date and from then on the UK’s immigration system will be very different...
