Employment law update - Job Support Scheme What is the Job Support Scheme? The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS), otherwise known as the “furlough scheme” will end on 31 October 2020 and will be replaced by the new Job Support Scheme (JSS), which will start on 1 November 2020 and continue until the end of April 2021. JSS is intended [...]
Teacher Stern has been recommended as a top-tier firm with an elite Leading Lawyer in the Legal 500 2021 Teacher Stern is delighted to be recommended as a top-tier firm in 5 practice areas in The Legal 500 UK 2021 edition. The team are also celebrating Martine Nathan’s listing as a leading individual in the elite Leading Lawyers group. Martine [...]
This Q&A is guidance and does not constitute legal advice. The guidance provided is correct as at 10 July 2020 but is subject to change as the situation evolves. If anyone has any questions leading on from these Q&A guidelines, they should contact a member of our Employment Team at emp@teacherstern.com. Employees on furlough under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme [...]
COVID-19 Secure Guidance: Keeping workplaces safe Following on from the Prime Minister’s announcement on 10 May 2020 modifying certain lockdown restrictions, the Government has now published new guidance on how employers can ensure that their workplaces are as safe as possible. This Q&A will provide a brief summary of the new ‘COVID-19 Secure’ guidance and take a look at the [...]
Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme - What are the Rules? This guidance is dated 30 April 2020. It summarises the provisions of Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (the Scheme), first announced by the Government on 20 March 2020. The Scheme has been live since 20 April and enables all UK employers to access support to continue paying part of their employees’ salary [...]
The Government has promised help specifically to preserve jobs, and has urged employers not to rush into decisions. Nonetheless employers will be feeling the pressure to act quickly. This Q&A deals with the law as it stands but we are expecting changes to be announced soon. This Q&A is a guideline and does not constitute legal advice. The guidance provided [...]
The coronavirus outbreak has raised multiple employment law questions regarding the health & safety of employees in the workplace, flexible working arrangements, managing absences and handling the outbreak in a way that does not give rise to discrimination issues. We have set out below some steps that employers should consider taking in relation to protecting their staff and visitors from [...]
Teacher Stern LLP has advised on the sale of the entire share capital of Blue Latitude Network Limited (trading as Blue Latitude Health), a healthcare marketing consultancy communications company, to Fishawack Creative Limited, a global medical communications and medical marketing organisation. The transaction included the sale of the US subsidiary, Blue Latitude Inc. to Fishawack Midco US Holdings LLC, complex [...]
There was more content to the Chancellor’s Budget than was expected. Here are some of the most note-worthy announcements. Property As previously announced, with effect from April 2019, all non-residents who realise a gain on the sale of UK land, whether commercial or residential, will be subject to tax in the UK. They will also be subject to tax on [...]
The Court of Appeal has held that care workers who sleep-in, are not entitled to the national minimum wage under the National Minimum Wage Act 2015 (NMWR 2015) for the time during which they are asleep. This is very good news for the care home sector who would have then been facing claims of several hundreds of millions of pounds in [...]
