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Employment weekly highlights—24 September 2020

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Published on: 24 September 2020

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This edition of Employment weekly highlights includes: (1) various coronavirus health protection amendment regulations relating to restrictions and international travel applicable to England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, (2) analysis of the new Presidential Guidance and Practice Direction on remote hearings, (3) regulations introducing a wide variety of amendments to employment tribunal rules plus minor early conciliation changes, (4) an EAT decision on the anonymisation of judgments, (5) the weekly update to the operational summary by HM Courts & Tribunals Service, (6) the update to HMRC’s Employment Status Manual for the 6 April 2021 off-payroll IR35 changes, (7) new draft regulations on ‘frontier workers’ and other IP completion day preparations, (8) updated guidance on the right to work in the UK for frontier workers, (9) updated guidance on renewing sponsor licences under the points-based immigration system, (10) a new consultation from the Department for Work and Pensions on the alternative quality requirement test for defined benefit and hybrid pension schemes, (11) a Court of Appeal rejection of...

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