hybrid working – Law Journals

Hybrid working: Working overseas – plain sailing?

Robert Maddox examines the issues employers need to think about when staff members ask to work remotely from abroad The key areas for an employer to consider when it receives a request to work from abroad for a longer period are tax and social security payments, immigration, employment law jurisdiction and data privacy and protection. …

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Privacy: Understand the legal pitfalls of monitoring remote employees

Rachel Tozer looks at the issues employers need to work through to help them decide whether electronic staff surveillance is justified An employer needs to be careful about treating one group of employees (such as remote workers) differently to another group (such as office-based workers). Recent reports that the Cabinet Office hopes to persuade civil …

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Legal news: Employment update

Peter Summerfield rounds up recent developments affecting employers and their advisers Employers should act with caution if they are contemplating dismissing an employee who has recently raised a health and safety matter. Vet’s assistant who raised Covid safety concerns was unfairly dismissed An employment tribunal has found that a veterinary assistant who raised concerns with …

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Hybrid working: How to manage the risks of proximity bias

Favouring those employees who spend the most time in the office could result in legal claims from hybrid workers, warns Helen Corden Due to proximity bias, a manager may develop a practice of allocating work to individuals who are physically present in the office as opposed to those working at home. Companies around the world …

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Flexible working: How to introduce a successful hybrid working strategy

Emma Burrows and Anna Scott consider the key points from recent Acas guidance on hybrid working and some tricky issues that can arise An employer will have responsibility for its staff wherever they are working and will need to consider health, safety and wellbeing, performance management and training and development. Stop press: new consultation …

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