In the case of Rodgers v Leeds Laser Cutting Ltd, the Court of Appeal has decided that an employee had not been automatically unfairly dismissed for refusing to come to work during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a notable decision as it is the first post-pandemic Court of Appeal claim considering s100(1)(d) of the
On 26 February 2021, the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy will close its consultation on “measures to reform post-termination non-compete clauses” in employment contracts.
Whilst covenants and the doctrine of the restraint of trade are hotly contested battle grounds in the UK Courts, the UK does not currently have any statutory
As we wrote in our post on 22 October 2020, the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (“CJRS”), known as the furlough scheme, was due to end on 31 October 2020. Its replacement – the Job Retention Scheme (“JSS”) – was due to come into effect on 1 November 2020. However, on the day it
Various pieces of legislation came into force in early April 2019. The common, and unsurprising, theme among all these legislative changes is that they increase the statutory minimum amounts employers must pay to their staff and increase awards available to the Employment Tribunal. We have set out below a summary of these key increases all