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• Coronavirus: resource round-up

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  Editor's choice

  Our resources give guidance to employers on legal compliance and practical measures that they can take in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, and include template letters. We cover furlough leave under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, redundancies, lay-offs, short-time working, annual leave and pay, as well as measures taken by governments abroad that will affect global employers.

• How to furlough employees under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme

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  How to

  Practical guidance on furloughing employees under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, including which employees are covered, consulting employees to vary their contracts and how to apply under the scheme.

• Webinar: Coronavirus - measures to protect your business

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  Podcasts and webinars

  Darren Newman discusses the Government's Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and answers your questions on workforce issues in relation to the coronavirus.

• April 2020: Employment law changes

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  Editor's choice

  We round up our key content on April employment law changes.

• Coronavirus: HR's initial response survey April 2020

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  Survey analysis

  XpertHR asked 400 HR practitioners how their organisations had responded to the challenges facing them as the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic dramatically reshapes the economy.

• How HR practitioners are coping in the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic

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  Commentary and analysis

  The unprecedented circumstances that businesses are currently working in has led to a surge in workload for the HR department. We look at how HR is coping as a profession and what steps practitioners are taking to look after themselves.

• April 2020 employment law changes: Eight tasks for HR

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  Commentary and analysis

  Each April, HR professionals must ensure that their organisation complies with the latest round of amended employment laws and deadlines. As well as dealing with the ongoing impact of coronavirus, important issues for HR in April 2020 include changes to written statements of terms and conditions, the introduction of parental bereavement leave and pay, and changes to the law on calculating holiday pay for workers with irregular hours.

• Podcast: Parental bereavement leave

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  Podcasts and webinars

  Jo Broadbent, counsel knowledge lawyer at Hogan Lovells, discusses the right to parental bereavement leave.

• Redundancy policy

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  Policies and documents

  Overhauled and enhanced to provide a more comprehensive redundancy policy for employers and HR professionals.

• Coronavirus: Right to work in the UK model documents updated

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  Editor's choice

  Guidance in our model documents has been updated to reflect temporary changes to the rules on checking the right to work in the UK, introduced because of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

• How to consider alternatives to redundancy during the coronavirus crisis

  Type:

  How to

  Practical guidance on measures that some employers may be able to take to mitigate the impact of the coronavirus outbreak and avoid redundancies; including reducing hours, implementing lay-offs and options for making longer-term efficiencies.

• Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Letter seeking an employee's agreement to be furloughed

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  Policies and documents

  A model letter to seek agreement to "furlough" an employee as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak so that you can pay them through funds from the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.

• Coronavirus and your workforce podcast: The Job Retention Scheme and furloughing workers

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  Podcasts and webinars

  Employment lawyer Darren Newman discusses the government guidance on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and furloughing workers.

• Coronavirus (COVID-19): Temporary changes to workplace policies and procedures

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  Policies and documents

  Updated with additional information on furloughing employees as an alternative to redundancy, following the publication of more details about the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme on 26 March 2020.

• Workforce planning

  Type:

  Good practice manual

  Guidance on workforce planning, including practical advice on each step of the process as well as suggested approaches for dealing with the uncertainty organisations face in planning, and the need for workforce flexibility.