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- Date:
- 18 September 2020
The government is relaxing the rules around employment tribunals to allow more hearings to be held online in an effort to deal with the rise in cases following the abolition of tribunal fees and to help manage the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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- Date:
- 8 September 2020
As much as £3.6bn in furlough payments could have been claimed erroneously or fraudulently, according to HM Revenue & Customs.
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- Date:
- 7 September 2020
Although the use of shared parental leave increased by 23 percentage points last year, only 13,100 couples applied to use the scheme last year.
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- Date:
- 27 August 2020
Workers on low incomes in parts of England with high rates of COVID-19 will be able to claim £13 per day if they have to self-isolate and are unable to work from home.
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- Date:
- 21 August 2020
One in eight workers remains on furlough, according to the latest fortnightly figures from the Office for National Statistics.
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- Date:
- 20 August 2020
HM Revenue & Customs has begun writing to employers it believes may have claimed too much money through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme based on the information it holds about them.
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- Date:
- 12 August 2020
The Labour party has called for the government to take urgent action to ensure that those who have been pregnant during the pandemic do not have their maternity pay wrongly docked.
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- Date:
- 11 August 2020
Research by Carers UK has shown that employers are seeing the health, wellbeing and productivity of their workforces adversely impacted by a shortage of support from social care services.
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- Date:
- 11 August 2020
The number of employees on payrolls fell by 730,000 between March and July 2020 - the largest quarterly drop since 2009 - but recruitment bodies suggest there have been signs of recovery over recent weeks.
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- Date:
- 10 August 2020
People from ethnic minorities in the UK have been hit disproportionately by job losses and reduced hours during the Covid-19 crisis.
