Redundancy

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• April 2020: Employment law changes

  Date:

  3 April 2020

  Type:

  Editor's choice

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

• Redundancy policy

  Type:

  Policies and documents

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

• Access the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme

  Type:

  Tasks

• Does placing employees on furlough prevent the employer from making them redundant?

  Type:

  FAQs

• Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Letter informing an employee put at risk of redundancy that their job is safe for now

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  A model letter to inform an employee who was told that their job was at risk of redundancy because of the coronavirus crisis that their role is safe for now, following the Government's announcement of increased financial support for employers through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.

• How to consider alternatives to redundancy during the coronavirus crisis

  Type:

  How to

  Updated to include details of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, announced by the Government on 20 March 2020.

• Can an employer withdraw notice of redundancy that was given before the announcement of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme?

  Type:

  FAQs

• What is the difference between a lay-off and a redundancy?

  Type:

  FAQs

• April 2020 employment law changes: Eight tasks for HR

  Date:

  19 March 2020

  Type:

  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 (Covid-19), 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.

• Consider support before making redundancies, says Bank of England boss

  Date:

  19 March 2020

  Type:

  News

  Organisations thinking of dismissing staff due to closure or a downturn in business because of the coronavirus should first consider the support the Government and financial institutions have offered them, the governor of the Bank of England has urged.