furlough – Law Journals

Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: How to manage the return from furlough

With the CJRS ending on 30 September 2021, many employers are turning their minds to managing employees’ return from furlough. Sophie Lockwood takes a look at the key considerations Employers should consult with staff and, where appropriate, their representatives as early as possible about returning to work at the end of furlough. Between 1 March …

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Furlough scheme: Recent cases highlight importance of considering alternatives to redundancy

Sarah Evans examines two decisions on whether it was fair to make employees redundant instead of furloughing them and the wider lessons for employers making redundancies as the CJRS closes The distinguishing feature of these two cases, and a clear reminder to employers, is that a failure to consider an alternative to redundancy, whatever that …

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Legal news: Employment update

Susan Mackay rounds up the latest developments affecting employers and their advisers Although the responses to BEIS’ consultation were generally in favour of a new workers’ watchdog, a number of concerns were raised. Workers’ Watchdog: New single enforcement body to be created On 8 June, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) published …

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Covid-19: Health and safety dismissals – a tale of two cases

Danielle Parsons and Rebecca Denvers compare two recent decisions in which the claimants argued that their dismissals were automatically unfair under the ‘serious and imminent danger’ provisions in the ERA It has not been difficult for employees to establish a reasonable belief that there were circumstances of danger in the early days of the pandemic …

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Annual leave: Holiday pay and carry over – latest cases and the impact of the pandemic

Despite a welcome ruling in the long-running Pimlico Plumbers case, avoiding breaches of the law on annual leave remains fraught with difficulty, warn Nick Hine and Ben Payne Many furloughed or other employees have accrued a large amount of holiday which they have not been able to take or wanted to take during the pandemic. …

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Furlough: How to manage the impact of the latest lockdown

With schools closed to most pupils and the clinically extremely vulnerable being asked to shield, Adele Hayfield and Antonia Blackwell examine the competing demands which employers must balance at this difficult time Employers will want to consider their operational requirements and the practicalities of agreeing to furlough leave. A business is unlikely to be able …

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