-
- Date:
- 24 September 2020
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has unveiled his new Job Support Scheme, which will require employers to give staff a minimum of 33% of their usual hours, with the Government covering some of the wages for the remaining hours not worked.
-
- Date:
- 22 September 2020
Boris Johnson has confirmed that people should work from home if they can in a statement to the House of Commons today. He also announced that retail and hospitality staff will be required to wear face masks among a series of tighter restrictions designed to curb rising coronavirus infection rates.
-
- Date:
- 22 September 2020
Organisations will be required to regularly publish their modern slavery statements via a new government reporting service and must be transparent about how they conduct their risk assessments and due diligence.
-
- Date:
- 21 September 2020
Employment tribunals are at a "tipping point" a leading employment lawyer has warned.
-
- Date:
- 21 September 2020
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality charity Stonewall has announced its Top Global Employers for 2020.
-
- 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.
-
- Date:
- 8 September 2020
As much as £3.6bn in furlough payments could have been claimed erroneously or fraudulently, according to HM Revenue & Customs.
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
- Date:
- 21 August 2020
One in eight workers remains on furlough, according to the latest fortnightly figures from the Office for National Statistics.
