As workplaces are slowly beginning to re-open, new challenges arise for employment law and HR teams. Our Asia Employment, Pensions and Incentives update this month looks at: the various measures introduced by the Department of Labour and Employment measures introduced in the Philippines, to preserve employment during the Covid-19 pandemic the conflicting views around whether the … Read more

At 9pm yesterday (12 June) HMRC published updated guidance to reflect the changes to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme to permit flexible furlough from 1 July and require increasing levels of employer contribution from 1 August.  These changes were announced on 29 May and further guidance was promised by 12 June.  In fact, many of … Read more

Employment law news over the last few months has inevitably been dominated by Covid-19 developments, which we have covered in numerous posts on this blog.  This update provides links to our recent posts on other developments.  These include April 2020 legislative changes, new EHRC harassment guidance, Government consultations on proposed new rights and Law Commission … Read more

Tomorrow (10 June 2020) is the latest date an employer can put an employee on their first period of furlough if the employer wants to furlough that employee for all or part of their normal hours and claim a grant under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) after 30 June 2020.  This is because claims … Read more

The Government has published its response to the consultation on the proposed new right to neonatal leave and pay.  Employees whose babies spend at least 7 continuous days in neonatal care either immediately or within the first 28 days of life will be entitled to one week’s leave per full week their child spends in neonatal care, … Read more

The EAT ruling in Gwynedd Council v Barrett serves as a reminder that a fair redundancy will normally require the employer to identify a reasonable pool of at risk employees and fairly score the individuals against fair selection criteria. It will not be fair instead to require individuals to interview for what are essentially the same jobs … Read more

The EAT has ruled for the first time that an employment tribunal in Great Britain can order disclosure of documents by a party who is outside Great Britain, even though the relevant tribunal rule only provides that the tribunal “may order any person in Great Britain to disclose documents or information”. The EAT rejected the … Read more

The Chancellor has this evening confirmed the following changes to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS): Claims for periods after 30 June 2020 will only be possible from employers who have previously used the scheme in respect of employees they have previously furloughed for a 3 week period ending no later than 30 June – … Read more