Coronavirus

HM Revenue & Customs has clarified that employees do not need to have provided a written agreement to stop working...

Say “frontline” in the current climate of coronavirus and you think of health workers, supermarket staff or other workers providing...

Proposals to extend the visas of NHS workers may not apply to as many people as initially thought, immigration experts...

The House of Lords committee looking at the proposed extension of IR35 regulations to the private sector has written to...

More than 70% of companies had furloughed some employees last week, days before HM Revenue & Customs’ portal for the...

It’s been a challenge for HR professionals everywhere to get employees on board with new ways of working, but how...

The UK employment rate reached a record high before social distancing and coronavirus lockdown measures forced the closure of the...

More than 140,000 employers applied for wage grants under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme within the first eight hours of...

Amazon looks to implement employee testing but what are the legal hurdles?

Concerns have been raised that employers could fail to qualify for the new Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme by not asking...

The government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme portal opened this morning (20 April), allowing businesses to claim support for furloughed employees...

The NHS is adapting trauma support techniques often used in military settings for use on the frontline of the coronavirus...

The City jobs market enjoyed a healthy rebound in the first month of the year – only to be cut...

Government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme has been extended one month, the chancellor has announced. Extension follows warnings that companies wanting to make 100 or more people redundant would have to commence 45-day consultation on Saturday.

Social inequalities likely to be widened by economic shutdown during coronavirus crisis.