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Care Home Workers And Compulsory Vaccinations

Care Home Workers And Compulsory Vaccinations From 11th November 2021, anyone entering a care home in England will need to have received a full dose of an approved Covid vaccine unless: 1. They are themselves residents of the care home; 2. They are friends or...

Future Working Arrangements: Key Advice

All Members, COVID-19

Future Working Arrangements: Key Advice Many employers are now making key decisions about when and where they ask people to work in future. For example, Spotify has decided that staff can work from whatever location they choose, KPMG has opted to ask staff to work 2...

Will Working From Home Stick?

All Members, COVID-19

Will Working From Home Stick? Whilst we can now see the light at the end of the coronavirus tunnel with the roll out of three vaccines, it’s still going to be a difficult few months for us all. The issue of what’s going to happen to those staff who have been working...

Affinity and Coronavirus Health Protection Regulations In TSB

All Members, COVID-19, Lockdown Rules

Affinity and Coronavirus Health Protection Regulations In TSB By refusing to change its retail service offering to customers, TSB is breaching the Health Protections Regulations, which put the lockdown rules into law. TSB has so far refused to change its retail...

COVID Update: Key Developments That May Affect You

Advice, All Members, COVID-19

COVID Update: Key Developments That May Affect You As you’ll no doubt have read in the press, the Government has made several key announcements on how it plans to address the rising number of Covid-19 cases and how it plans to mitigate the effect on jobs. 1. The Job...

Flexible Furlough

Advice, COVID-19

Flexible Furlough What’s Changing? The Government has announced that from 1st July, the furlough scheme is changing to a flexible scheme, where employers can bring furloughed staff back to work for any period of time, on any shift pattern, whilst still claiming a...