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With everything else that’s going on at the moment it is easy to forget about the employment law changes which came into force in April. As a reminder, here are some of the key changes:

Yesterday evening, the government provided updated guidance on apprenticeships in relation to furlough

This weekend the government provided updated guidance on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme...

The Chancellor has just announced the Government’s package of support for the self-employed; the Self-Employed Income Support Scheme.

The Act also gives HMRC the power to set out how this funding will work in practice. However, no details have yet been formally set out...

Since the COVID-19 outbreak began the government has urged people to work from home where possible. Working from home is no longer the alien concept it once was;

An urgent question was directed at the Chancellor at 12.30pm...

Furlough leave has not been defined by UK statute (yet). However, it is essentially a new mechanism that the UK government has implemented to avoid employers making employees redundant during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Chancellor has announced the government package to support jobs and incomes during the public health emergency caused by the Coronavirus pandemic.

We are in unprecedented times. The Government has advised measures of social distancing including the avoidance of bars, pubs and restaurants. Thousands of businesses will be forced to close due to a downturn in trade or staff being off unwell or in isolation.We all need to pull together and think flexibly and sustainably. This will have to be a group effort. Employees may need to agree a reduction in pay now to try and retain their roles in the long run. Businesses may have to make redundancies and conduct redundancy processes over a very short space of time to try and stay afloat.