Extension to who can provide a ‘fit note’
Employers can ask staff who are absent from work due to illness for more than 7 days to provide them…
Employers can ask staff who are absent from work due to illness for more than 7 days to provide them…
A recent employment tribunal case has looked at the question of whether long COVID, whilst not currently a condition which automatically…
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has, in a recent decision, looked at circumstances in which employees may be fairly dismissed following…
On 21 February 2022, the Westminster Government published their “Living with COVID-19” plan detailing their proposal to remove all coronavirus…
An Employment Tribunal has found that a care home worker was fairly dismissed for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine….
The UK Government confirmed last week that those in England who are ‘double jabbed’ with the coronavirus vaccine (and those…
With so-called “Freedom Day” having arrived in England, resulting in most COVID-related legal restrictions being lifted from today, the UK…
As we reported previously, the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (the “furlough scheme”) is currently envisaged to end on 30 September…
Following our JEL alert yesterday where we outlined that after 1 April 2021, shielding will no longer be required in…
Individuals who are considered to be extremely clinically vulnerable have been required to shield at various stages throughout the pandemic….
As widely reported in the news this week, in yesterday’s Spring Budget, the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, announced that the Coronavirus…
For most of us, the coronavirus vaccine is the light at the end of a long, dark tunnel. As an…