Coronavirus

New and updated

• Type:

  Policies and documents

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

  Updated to flag up that the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme has been extended until 30 September 2021.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Letter turning down employee's request to be furloughed

  Updated to flag up that the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme has been extended until 30 September 2021.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Letter offering to extend furloughed employee's fixed-term contract

  Updated to flag up that the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme has been extended until 30 September 2021.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Letter to keep in touch with furloughed employee

  Updated to flag up that the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme has been extended until 30 September 2021.

• Type:

  Legal timetable

  Employees on furlough scheme extension entitled to statutory payments based on normal pay

  Regulations set out how employers must calculate a week's pay in relation to certain statutory termination payments paid to furloughed employees during the extended period of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) from 1 April 2021 to 30 April 2021.

• Date:

  25 February 2021

  Type:

  Law reports

  Coronavirus: Dismissal for refusing to wear face mask was fair

  In Kubilius v Kent Foods Ltd, an employment tribunal held that the delivery driver was fairly dismissed when he refused to wear a face mask at a client site.

• Date:

  23 February 2021

  Type:

  News

  Boris Johnson sets out roadmap for lockdown easing

  Prime Minister Boris Johnson has outlined his roadmap for lifting coronavirus restrictions and the gradual reopening of the economy in England.

• Type:

  Employment law manual

  Gender pay gap reporting

  Updated to include information on the six-month extension on gender pay gap enforcement action, announced by the EHRC on 23 February 2021.

• Date:

  19 February 2021

  Type:

  Law reports

  Coronavirus: Constructive dismissal after remote working request denied

  In An Operations Coordinator v A Facilities Management Service Provider, the Workplace Relations Commission in Ireland found that a worker was constructively dismissed when she resigned after she raised concerns about safe working and her employer rejected her request to work remotely during the coronavirus pandemic.

• Type:

  Editor's choice

  Coming soon to XpertHR

  Updated to include commentaries on unconscious bias and termination of a pregnancy for medical reasons.