Coronavirus job retention scheme – Law Journals

Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: How to manage the return from furlough

With the CJRS ending on 30 September 2021, many employers are turning their minds to managing employees’ return from furlough. Sophie Lockwood takes a look at the key considerations Employers should consult with staff and, where appropriate, their representatives as early as possible about returning to work at the end of furlough. Between 1 March …

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Furlough scheme: Recent cases highlight importance of considering alternatives to redundancy

Sarah Evans examines two decisions on whether it was fair to make employees redundant instead of furloughing them and the wider lessons for employers making redundancies as the CJRS closes The distinguishing feature of these two cases, and a clear reminder to employers, is that a failure to consider an alternative to redundancy, whatever that …

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Legal news: Employment update

Susan Mackay rounds up the latest developments affecting employers and their advisers Although the responses to BEIS’ consultation were generally in favour of a new workers’ watchdog, a number of concerns were raised. Workers’ Watchdog: New single enforcement body to be created On 8 June, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) published …

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Covid-19: Health and safety dismissals – a tale of two cases

Danielle Parsons and Rebecca Denvers compare two recent decisions in which the claimants argued that their dismissals were automatically unfair under the ‘serious and imminent danger’ provisions in the ERA It has not been difficult for employees to establish a reasonable belief that there were circumstances of danger in the early days of the pandemic …

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Furlough: CJRS scheme extended again – current issues and priorities for employers

Lucy Lewis and Richard Moore discuss the implications of the decision to extend the furlough scheme to the end of September 2021, with employer contributions gradually increasing from July As lockdown restrictions ease, we can expect to see new debates about how the furlough scheme interacts with arrangements for schools and with the roll-out of …

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Furlough: How to manage the impact of the latest lockdown

With schools closed to most pupils and the clinically extremely vulnerable being asked to shield, Adele Hayfield and Antonia Blackwell examine the competing demands which employers must balance at this difficult time Employers will want to consider their operational requirements and the practicalities of agreeing to furlough leave. A business is unlikely to be able …

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Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Flexible furlough – an eleventh-hour reprieve

Alison Garrow sets out the key issues for employers and their advisers to consider following the extension of the furlough scheme to 31 March Given the short period between the announcement of the scheme’s extension and its start date, there was a limited window for an employer to agree to place an employee on furlough …

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Coronavirus job retention scheme: New law to ensure furloughed employees receive full redundancy payments

At the end of July, the government issued new regulations on redundancy and notice pay for furloughed staff, as well as further details of the job retention bonus. Amanda Sanders and Aida Geragusian examine these developments It is possible to make employees redundant and to give them their notice while on furlough. On 17 July, …

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Coronavirus job retention scheme: Issues to consider as the furlough scheme winds down

David Palmer explores the issues for employers resulting from the Chancellor’s announcement that government support for furloughed employees will be gradually withdrawn. The announcement will affect one million employers and more than eight million jobs ‘Despite the fraught evolution of the CJRS and the uncertainties which arose about its rules, it has so far achieved …

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Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Flexible furlough – rewriting the rules

Rose Smith looks at the new ‘commandments’ that employers must follow before making claims under the updated furlough scheme ‘While being a potentially helpful tool for businesses, flexible furlough is going to be burdensome and time-consuming for them to operate.’ On 20 March 2020, the UK government announced its unprecedented Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) …

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