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Can You Make Your Employees Have the COVID Vaccine?

Can You Make Your Employees Have the COVID Vaccine?

When it comes to vaccinating your workforce, you may be tempted to make it a mandatory process so that you can ensure the highest levels of safety. However, there is a very fine line between acting in everyone’s best interests and breaking the law and keeping on the...

How to Ace the Test and Trace – Guidance for Employers

How to Ace the Test and Trace – Guidance for Employers

With the COVID-19 outbreak continuing to disrupt the economy and businesses across the UK, employers are legally obliged to maintain records of staff, visitors, and customers to help NHS Test and Trace inform those who may have been exposed to the virus. Employers in...

Handling Redundancies during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Handling Redundancies during the COVID-19 Pandemic

More employers are having to make redundancies due to COVID-19, but how should they be handled? Here we take a look at getting the process right. Unfortunately, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, some employers have had to consider making redundancies amongst their...

Employers’ Most Frequently Asked Questions About Coronavirus

Employers’ Most Frequently Asked Questions About Coronavirus

The COVID-19 pandemic has raised a host of questions for employers who are wondering about their rights and obligations. Here you’ll find some answers. Employers have many questions about their rights and obligations when it comes to their workers and workplaces...

Covid-19: Temporary Filing Requirements with Companies House

Covid-19: Temporary Filing Requirements with Companies House

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the government has created an emergency filing service, the details of which were published on 26 June 2020. Originally drafted in April 2020, the new regulations provide breathing space for companies who normally file accounts...

Covid-19: Managing Distressed Assets

Covid-19: Managing Distressed Assets

The recent pandemic has created enormous financial pressure for many businesses, particularly with regards to cashflow. Although the first peak of the infection seems to have passed, the economic impact is expected to continue to be felt by businesses for some time....

Covid-19: Contact Tracing and Data Protection in the Workplace

Covid-19: Contact Tracing and Data Protection in the Workplace

Minimising contact is seen as vital to minimise the spread of COVID-19 in the community. Employers have a very significant role to play in the process but it can be challenging balancing up privacy and data laws with the need to protect other employees. Here’s a...

Covid-19: Considering Redundancies as Furlough Scheme Closes

Covid-19: Considering Redundancies as Furlough Scheme Closes

The furlough scheme is credited with saving many jobs, supporting businesses while they navigated the peak of the COVID-19 crisis. However, the scheme was never intended to stretch on forever, and businesses are now contemplating what the future looks like as...

Covid-19 Update: Employer FAQs

Covid-19 Update: Employer FAQs

The government has issued advice to employer on how to manage COVID-19 and the support that is available. While this is subject to change at little notice, these FAQs are based on the latest information published and cover some of the areas which haven’t been as...

Covid-19 Update: Debt Recovery Is Still Possible Despite Moratorium

Covid-19 Update: Debt Recovery Is Still Possible Despite Moratorium

The COVID-19 crisis has led to financial concerns for many businesses so it wasn’t a surprise when the Insolvency and Corporate Governance Bill was read in Parliament on 20 May 2020. Known as the ICG Bill, it placed a moratorium on winding-up petitions to prevent a...

Covid 19: Furlough Leave and TUPE

Covid 19: Furlough Leave and TUPE

When a business changes owner, its members of staff will find that they are protected under the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) regulations, otherwise known as TUPE. It applies to all UK businesses, regardless of their size, number of employees or...

Covid 19: Pharmacy Change of Ownership Applications Suspended

Covid 19: Pharmacy Change of Ownership Applications Suspended

It was revealed on 8th April 2020 that in an effort to focus NHS England regional team efforts where they are needed most, Primary Care Support England would be temporarily suspending all new market entry, market exit and consolidation applications, backdated to 25th...

Covid 19: FAQs for Directors, Shareholders and M&A

Covid 19: FAQs for Directors, Shareholders and M&A

The COVID-19 pandemic has created challenges that businesses and individuals have never had to consider until now. With each unpredictable day unfolding, new announcements, regulations and rules are brought in – and it is affecting every single one of us, especially...

Covid 19: Furlough Advice For Employers

Covid 19: Furlough Advice For Employers

Until a few weeks ago, nobody had even heard of the word ‘furlough’ – but now, it’s something we’re seeing in the news and all over the internet every single day. The coronavirus pandemic doesn’t look like it’s going to slow down...

Covid – 19: How to sign documents during the coronavirus lockdown

Covid – 19: How to sign documents during the coronavirus lockdown

With the vast majority of the population in lockdown, we are facing unprecedented and uncertain times. However, the world continues to turn and with that we’re having to figure out new and different ways of working. There are documents – contracts, deeds, legal...

Covid-19: Are you an employee? Do you know your rights?

Covid-19: Are you an employee? Do you know your rights?

There is no denying that we are living in uncertain times at the moment and the best thing you can do right now is educate yourself on your position and the different options that are available to you as an employee. Working from home The advice from the government is...

Covid-19: What employers should be aware of

Covid-19: What employers should be aware of

If there is one thing that everyone is speaking about at the moment, it is the coronavirus - and rightly so; we are living through something that we have never experienced before in living memory. If you are an employer, you may be concerned about the future of your...

Covid-19 and Commercial Property

Covid-19 and Commercial Property

With the effects of COVID-19 causing entire businesses to close and workforces to uproot and work from home away from the office, it has created an issue for companies leasing properties for which they are paying rent but deriving no income. In such circumstances,...

Covid-19 and Contract Law

Covid-19 and Contract Law

The shutdown brought about by the COVID-19 virus has resulted in a shift in circumstances for which most have never prepared. A huge number of events have been cancelled, many at the last minute. Many work projects have been postponed or cancelled, leaving either the...

COVID-19 and Employment Law

COVID-19 and Employment Law

One of the biggest issues around the Coronavirus outbreak has been the need to "self-isolate" and dramatically reduce opportunities for COVID-19 to spread. This move to self-isolation has resulted in an estimated 20% of the UK workforce working from home. This...

Where do you go for advice? Everyone’s the expert!

Where do you go for advice? Everyone’s the expert!

The UK Government has provided further details of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme to help employers avoid redundancies during the Co-Vid pandemic. We have summarised the key features below. Scope of the Scheme The Scheme is open to all UK employers, who operated...