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Elizabeth Bayliss and Katharine Foster outline the support available under the postponed Job Support Scheme to employers forced to close their premises or facing reduced demand due to Covid-19 Employers may claim the JSS Open and JSS Closed grants at the same time for different employees. However, they cannot claim for a single employee under …
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Amanda Sanders and Charlotte Emmerson look at how employers should respond to the government’s advice on face coverings in certain workplaces and on a return to home working The government has published a number of guides for working safely during coronavirus in England and similar guidance applies in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. This guidance …
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Employers who knowingly permit a member of staff to come to work when they should be self-isolating could now be fined, warn Emma Burrows and Anna Scott A failure by an employee to provide the required information to an employer will result in criminal liability and a fixed penalty of £50. Employers all need to …
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Monica Kurnatowska and Hannah Swift examine the cost of domestic abuse for employers and their role in supporting affected staff members Although typically the abuse may be entirely unconnected to work, there are circumstances in which employers can dismiss for conduct that occurs outside work. An estimated 2.4 million adults in the UK aged 16 …
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Jennifer Millins, Molly Flood and Morgan Reardon explore the legal and practical ramifications of the Jaguar Land Rover case There is a wide group of people who identify as non-binary or similar, for whom the concept of ‘reassigning’ their sex is fundamentally incompatible with their gender identity. This article examines the recent judgment in Taylor …
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Shah Qureshi reviews the recent employment tribunal decision which determined that Stoicism qualifies for protection under the Equality Act 2010 It was clear to the judge that Mr Jackson had a strong interest in and adherence to Stoicism for a number of years, which ‘transcends merely holding an opinion’. In the preliminary hearing decision in …
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Mark Kaye rounds up recent case law affecting employers and their advisers When an employer satisfies the requirement to establish a material factor, it is under no obligation to prove a ‘good’ reason for the pay disparity. Employee claiming unfair dismissal on trade union grounds granted interim relief In Montes Morales v Premier Fruits (Covent …
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With the Test and Trace service beset by problems, Chris Cook examines the data protection issues and other difficulties facing employers who wish to carry out their own tests for Covid-19 Health records are a special category of personal data, so if an employee does disclose their test result, the employer must take additional measures …
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Sean Nesbitt and Alex Stones discuss the growing risk of online harassment of staff members, whether by colleagues, ex-employees seeking revenge or cyber campaigners If employers do not allow voices to be raised and enable digital activism to be channelled internally, the first they hear about such allegations may be when they have already gone …
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Paul Reeves, Tony Woodcock, Leanne Raven and Fran Legg look at how businesses can tackle the heightened risk of modern slavery abuses resulting from the pandemic Reputation is fragile and failure to adhere to ethical practices is a guaranteed way to tarnish a company’s name. Amid the turmoil of the coronavirus pandemic, employers have not …
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