Health and safety

New and updated

• Type:

  FAQs

  What obligations does an employer have to pregnant employees during the coronavirus crisis?

• Date:

  3 July 2020

  Type:

  Podcasts and webinars

  Managing your workforce out of lockdown webinar: Engaging employees while leaving lockdown

  Victoria Lewis, CEO at byrne-dean, takes us through the challenges of returning to work after the lockdown and outlines measures to address them, while also incorporating and retaining the many benefits that have emerged.

• Date:

  2 July 2020

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  Coronavirus: Promoting employee engagement as the lockdown is lifted

  The return to the workplace has started for many organisations, but that workplace is likely to look very different to the pre-coronavirus (COVID-19) one, and HR professionals are already looking at how their practices will need to change to adapt.

• Date:

  2 July 2020

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  HR and coronavirus survey: Recovery or redundancy?

  As employers survey the economic legacy of the coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown, XpertHR asked HR practitioners about flexible furloughing, job losses and the new realities of workplace life.

• Type:

  Employment law manual

  Collective redundancy consultation

  Enhanced to include information on how the obligation to consult may be triggered where groups of redundancies are aggregated.

• Date:

  26 June 2020

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  What are the implications of the test and trace service for employers?

  Employers are being asked to "play their part" in the NHS test and trace service by encouraging workers to comply with requests to self-isolate and to support them while they are in isolation. Jo Broadbent, Counsel Knowledge Lawyer at Hogan Lovells, explores some of the legal and practical issues for employers of the test and trace service.

• Date:

  25 June 2020

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  Pay trends June 2020: Pay awards remain subdued

  As the UK starts to emerge from the coronavirus pandemic, our headline pay award remains depressed as the impact on the economy hits organisations' ability to reward their employees.

• Type:

  Line manager briefings

  Communicating with your team

  Updated to include information for line managers on communicating with employees during the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis.

• Date:

  21 June 2020

  Type:

  Podcasts and webinars

  Managing your workforce out of lockdown webinar: Collective redundancy consultation - the process and pitfalls

  Many employers will be faced with the possibility of carrying out redundancies over the coming weeks and months. Employment lawyer Darren Newman navigates you through the law on carrying out a collective redundancy exercise.

• Type:

  Line manager briefings

  Misconduct

  Enhanced to include guidance on conducting remote disciplinary procedures.