Guidance on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) has been published by HMRC. Employers will be able to claim back 80% of the wages (up to £2,500 per month) of employees who have been “furlou...
Supreme Court Decision on Post Termination Restrictive Covenants
In Tillman v Egon Zehnder Ltd, the Supreme Court, in the first such case for 100 years, has overturned the Court of Appeal decision that a restrictive covenant under which a senior employee agreed not...
Employer’s Guide to Right to Work Checks – a tougher criminal offence for employers
From 12 July 2016 there is a tougher offence of illegal working and a tougher criminal offence of employing an illegal worker. The law on preventing illegal working is set out in the Immigration, Asyl...
Background checks – what an employer can and cannot do
Employers are experiencing more and more requests from their clients to ensure they have carried out certain types of background checks on their workforce. US companies starting up in the UK are used ...
European Court of Human Rights holds that employer’s reading of employee’s private messages at work is lawful
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that an employer was within its rights to sack a Romanian engineer after discovering that he had used a work Yahoo messaging account to correspond with his...
Travelling time for workers with no fixed workplace counts as ‘working time’
In Federación de Servicios Privados del Sindicato Comisiones Obreras v Tyco Integrated Security SL (TIS), the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has held that, for workers who do not have a fixed or hab...
New Acas guides on discrimination at work
To help employers identify, tackle and prevent discrimination in the workplace, Acas has recently published three new guides. Although the Acas guides are not strictly legally binding, businesses are ...
Changes to the Tier 2 Policy Guidance for all Tier 2 Sponsors
Changes are made each April and October to the Immigration rules. Changes have been made to the Tier 2 Policy Guidance and came in on 6 April 2015. All Tier 2 sponsor licence holders should ensure tha...
Employment Law Changes on 5 April 2015 and beyond
Some significant changes to employment law occur on 5 April 2015, mainly in the area of family leave. The headline news is the introduction of shared parental leave but various other changes will al...
Van Der Elst work permit exemption
Non-EEA nationals usually remain subject to the national immigration rules of each EEA member state. However, the rules and principles of EU law can sometimes interfere with the national laws. The pri...