COVID-19
UK coronavirus job retention scheme: government grant tapering from 1 July 2021
Local employers gain influence over skills development plans
COVID-19: dismissal for refusing to agree variation to employment contract is unfair
Crises such as a pandemic can push employers to try to introduce changes to employees' contractual terms and even, as in Khatun v. Winn Solicitors Ltd ET/2501492/2020, to dismiss, if an employee does not accept the change. This case reminds us that no matter how critical and urgent the situation, and even if the proposed change might be a reasonable measure in the circumstances, employers must still act reasonably and follow a fair process if they are going to treat refusal to agree the change as justifying dismissal.
The return to the workplace in the UK
UK measures on temporary right to work checks extended until 20 June 2021
ACAS publishes new long COVID guidance for UK employers
Mandatory vaccination programmes and human rights
Temporary UK right to work measures to end next month
If you are dismissed for a COVID-19 related absence, could this be automatically unfair?
Dismissal for refusing to wear face mask can be fair
Over the past year, face masks have become an ordinary part of life and it was only a matter of time before they became the focus of a workplace dispute. In the first such dispute to reach a tribunal, Kubilius v Kent Foods Ltd (ET/3201960/2020), an employment tribunal found that a lorry driver was dismissed fairly for his refusal to wear a face mask on a client's premises.