Category: Legal Bulletin

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TUPE, or the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006, aims to protect employees in the event that their employment is transferred to a new employer following a business transfer or service provision change.

Fully vaccinated people will not be legally required to take a coronavirus test to avoid isolation if “pinged” from 16 August.

From 1st July 2021, all European Economic Area (EEA) and Swiss nationals will no longer be able to use their passports or national identity cards as evidence of their right to work in the UK (Irish nationals are excluded from this rule), and employers must make the necessary changes to their right to work checks before any offer of employment is made.

Here are some simple guidelines and tips to help managers achieve a positive outcome from difficult conversations, particularly when the discussion is not being held face to face:

The government is considering introducing certificates to prove immunity from Covid-19, but what are the implications for businesses who hope to use them to reopen workplaces?

The blended approach of working from home and attending the workplace on certain days of the week is what employers are now actively considering as part of a new working model, called hybrid work.

Employers need to select employees for redundancy in a fair way. It is therefore important for the employer to be able to defend the method of selection by showing that it has used appropriate criteria, applied in an objective and consistent way.

The government has published the proposed statutory rates for maternity pay, paternity pay, shared parental pay, adoption pay, parental bereavement pay and sick pay, effective from April 2021. Statutory rates normally increase each April in line with the consumer price index (CPI).

Minimum wage rates increase on 1st April of each year. This includes National Minimum Wage rates and the National Living Wage rate. The new minimum wage rates apply to all eligible employees and workers from 1st April 2021.