- Employment weekly highlights—26 March 2020
- In this issue:
- Coronavirus (COVID-19)
- Coronavirus Act 2020
- Chancellor announces further measures in response to coronavirus (COVID-19)
- Working from home guidance published by Acas
- Coronavirus (COVID-19)—20,000 military personnel on standby
- Essential justice system employees put on key worker list
- Government introduces new coronavirus (COVID-19) online isolation notes
- Practice, procedure and settlement
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- Phone hearings in London (Central) ET cease until Monday 30 March
- Employment tribunals: Presidential coronavirus (COVID-19) direction of 19 March 2020 amended
- All in-person ET hearings converted to case management by phone etc from Monday 23 March
- UPDATED: EAT now closed for all in-person, phone or Skype hearings until 15 April 2020
- Guidance on civil court hearings issued in light of coronavirus (COVID-19)
- Application fees waived for adjourning civil and family cases resulting from coronavirus (COVID-19)
- HM Courts and Tribunals Service identifies priorities during coronavirus (COVID-19)
- Coronavirus (COVID-19)—Civil and Family Courts guidance from Lord Chief Justice
- Court counter closures due to coronavirus (COVID-19) from Wednesday 18 March 2020
- Coronavirus (COVID-19)—Changes to judicial activity in the Court of Justice announced
- Scottish Courts update contingency plans for coronavirus (COVID-19)
- Coronavirus (COVID-19)—Update on civil business in Scottish courts
- Equality
- Gender pay gap reporting suspended due to coronavirus (COVID-19)
- Issues arising on termination
- Employee’s subjective view not relevant to whether employer in fundamental breach
- Employee duties and restrictions on competition
- Trade Secrets—Our first look at the Regulations in action?—Trailfinders Ltd v Travel Counsellors Ltd and others [2020] EWHC 591 (IPEC)
- Pay
- National minimum wage: BEIS advice bulletin on pay advances and loans
- Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order (Northern Ireland) 2020
- Data protection and employee information
- Statement released on the processing of personal data in light of coronavirus (COVID-19)
- Tax
- Social Security (Contributions) (Amendment No 3) Regulations 2020
- Financial services and banking: employment issues
- UK clearinghouses, payment systems likely to get new senior-managers regime, government says
- *New* Coronavirus (COVID-19) toolkit
- Access news, practical guidance and Q&As from across Practice Areas in one place
- LexTalk®Employment: a Lexis®PSL community *New coronavirus forum*
- Collaborate and network with a community of expert lawyers
- Daily and weekly news alerts
- New and Updated content
- New Subsection
- Practice Notes
- New Precedents
- Dates for your diary
- Trackers
- New Q&As
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Article summary
This week's edition of Employment highlights includes: (1) the passage of the new Coronavirus Act 2020 through Parliament, (2) the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme which provides for the payment of 80% of wages during the pandemic, (3) Acas guidance on working from home, (4) an announcement from the Ministry of Defence that it will put an additional 10,000 military personnel on standby and may call out military reservists as part of a new coronavirus (COVID-19) support force, (5) confirmation that lawyers and court staff deemed essential to operating the justice system have been defined as key workers by the government during the pandemic, (6) new online isolation notes from the Department of Health and Social Care to provide evidence of illness, (7) various directions and guidance on the operation of tribunals and courts from the Employment Tribunals, EAT, ECJ and in relation to the civil courts in England, Wales and Scotland, (8) the suspension of enforcement of gender pay gap reporting deadlines for 2019–20, (9) an EAT judgment on the relevance, in a constructive dismissal claim, of what the employee thinks about whether the employer has breached the implied term of trust and confidence, (10) a High Court judgment on a claim for breach of confidence by two former employees, (11) advice from the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy on the national minimum wage and pay advances/loans to workers, (12) a statement from the European Data Protection Board on the impact of the pandemic on data protection, (13) potential new senior manager regimes for UK clearinghouses, payment systems, central securities depositories and other critical finance infrastructure, (14) dates for your diary, (15) updates to our legislation and case trackers, (16) and new Q&As.
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