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This week's edition of Employment highlights includes: (1) analysis of two Supreme Court decisions on vicarious liability, the first by Katie Ayres, barrister at 1 Chancery Lane relating to a doctor who was an independent contractor and the second by Steven Hadwin, director in the Data Protection, Privacy and Cybersecurity group at Norton Rose Fulbright and Bridget Treacy, partner at Hunton Andrews Kurth relating to a data breach by an employee with a personal vendetta, (2) further HMRC guidance on the coronavirus (COVID-19) Job Retention Scheme, (3) a Self-employment Income Support Scheme announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, (4) a selection of concerns from workers published by the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee about the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis, (5) amendments to the Working Time Regulations 1998 to ensure that workers who cannot take holiday due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic can carry their holiday into the following two leave years, (6) a look at the implications for employee share schemes of tax measures introduced as...
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