Until 31 December 2020 it was possible for an EU national to arrive in the UK to intend to live and work visa free and to do any kind of work. People from the rest of the world need a visa to be able ...
What Brexit means for UK Data Protection
When the UK transition period for leaving the EU finishes on 31 December 2020, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will not apply in the same way that it has done so. At 11pm on 31 Dec 20...
Government extends Job Retention scheme until end of October
The Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, recently announced that the Government job retention furlough scheme will be extended to the end of October. The scheme was previously only set to end on 30 June. Speaking...
Will the COVID-19 outbreak result in catastrophic compliance failures for Tier 2 Sponsors?
Following the pandemic, working conditions may have changed; many of us have gone from having morning coffee with colleagues to now having virtual coffee mornings. Tier 2 & 5 Sponsors, should ...
Guidance on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
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...