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When businesses face difficult times, redundancies often become unavoidable. However, what starts as a legitimate redundancy process can quickly turn into an unfair dismissal claim if employers get the selection criteria wrong. At Davenport Solicitors, we’ve seen countless cases where well-intentioned employers have found themselves facing tribunal claims simply because they didn’t understand the legal […]
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The COVID-19 Secure guidelines, applicable in England, are supported by five key steps to working safely which employers need to implement. They are: Carry out a COVID-19 risk assessment. Before employees start to return to the workplace, employers should ensure the safety of their workplaces by: carrying out a risk assessment in line with the […]
Following our previous article The new points-based immigration system: a detailed overview, the government has revealed further details on the points-based immigration system coming into force in January 2021. These new arrangements will take effect from 1 January 2021, once freedom of movement with the European Union (EU) has ended. It will treat EU and […]
What’s the new law? The Government has laid the Employment Rights Act 1996 (Coronavirus, Calculation of a Week’s Pay) Regulations 2020 SI 2020/814 (The Regulations) before Parliament, to ensure that furloughed employees who are made redundant receive statutory redundancy pay based on their normal wages, rather than a reduced furlough rate. When does it come […]
As companies begin to grow the importance of HR within the business becomes increasingly clear. From recruitment to employee onboarding and employee management, HR manages the whole employee experience. During company growth, you need to make sure you are employing the right people for the job. They need to be onboarded quickly and they will […]
Chancellor, Rishi Sunak announced a plan for jobs on 8 July 2020. We set out some of the key highlights. Furlough will not be extended: although it seems attractive, it will be worse for the economy to extend it. So, it will end in October 2020. A new policy has been introduced to reward […]
During his Summer Statement, the chancellor announced key initiatives to help the UK economy recover from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The introduction of the Job Retention Bonus was high up on the agenda. What is the Job Retention Bonus? The Job Retention Bonus is a one-off payment to employers for every furloughed employee […]
We have compiled an employer’s step-by-step guide to redundancy. Is there a genuine redundancy situation? If so, how many redundancies do you need to make? Is it a redundancy or a reorganisation scenario? Are there ways of avoiding redundancies? If proposing to make more than 20 people redundant from one establishment, you need to start […]
The government has recently announced a number of ways to help hotel and leisure businesses, who are an integral part of our community. We have set out below some of the key changes that the hospitality industry will see implemented to assist them with recovery: More pubs, restaurants and cafes will be able to serve […]
Following his speech on Tuesday 23 June 2020, the prime minister announced that a further easing of lockdown will commence from 4 July onwards. Top of that list is the re-opening of several venues including pubs, restaurants, hairdressers and cinemas. With that comes great relief for business owners and their customers. The government also announced […]
