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New minimum wage provisions for salaried hours work and reductions from wages

9 April 2020

8 April 2020

Vento bands for injury to feelings increased from 6 April 2020

The President of Employment Tribunals has updated awards for injury to feelings and psychiatric injury following De Souza v Vinci Construction (UK) Ltd [2017] EWCA...

7 April 2020

Home Office announces temporary changes to right to work checks

The Home Office has announced that right to work checks have been adapted to make it easier for employers to carry them out during the...

6 April 2020

Regs suspend SSP waiting days and specifies incapability for work due to coronavirus symptoms

The Statutory Sick Pay (Coronavirus) (Suspension of Waiting Days and General Amendment) Regulations 2020 have been published and came into force on 28 March 2020....

2 April 2020

Government launch Coronavirus business support

Businesses are now able to access Government support to keep operating in the face of coronavirus emergency. The Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme will help...

1 April 2020

ICO guidance on data protection compliance and COVID-19

The ICO has published a statement recognising the unprecedented challenges everyone is facing during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and has posted answers to some of...

31 March 2020

Isolation from work following health guidance deemed incapable of work for SSP purposes

The Statutory Sick Pay (General) (Coronavirus Amendment) Regulations 2020 came into force on 13 March 2020 amending Statutory Sick Pay legislation so that a person...

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Coronavirus Act 2020 comes into force

30 March 2020

30 March 2020

No requirement to report gender pay gap data for 2019/20

Due to the Coronavirus outbreak, the Government Equalities Office and the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) have taken the decision to suspend enforcement of...

27 March 2020

Online isolation notes launched – providing proof of coronavirus absence from work

The Department of Health has announced that people unable to work for more than seven days because of coronavirus can obtain an isolation note through...

27 March 2020

IR 35 off payroll working rules delayed for a year

Speaking in the House of Commons on 17 March, Steve Barclay Chief Secretary to the Treasury announced that the Government is postponing the reform to...

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Coronavirus Act 2020 comes into force

26 March 2020

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