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1,000s of staff at Tesco’s head office are being made to work on its shop floors one day every fortnight. If you need an employee to temporarily undertake a different role, can you force them to do
so?
Published 06.11.2014
Under the government’s Job Retention Scheme you can “furlough” employees and claim 80% of each individual’s wage costs, up to a cap of £2,500 per month. Do you have to pay the remaining 20%?
Published 08.04.2020
As you’re doubtless aware, you will be required to make contributions to furlough payments starting in August. But what’s the detail?
Published 11.06.2020
You’ve asked an employee who was placed on furlough to now return to work. However, they’ve refused your request. Do you have grounds to dismiss them in this situation?
Published 03.06.2020
You need to invoke a clause in an employee’s written contract of employment. However, they’ve just smugly claimed that it’s “totally unenforceable” because they never signed the document. Is this
true?
Published 06.09.2012
The Treasury has directed that employers and furloughed employees must have “agreed in writing” that the employee will cease all work during their period of furlough leave. But will an email exchange
suffice?
Published 05.05.2020
You know that you’re under a duty to provide a safe place of work. But in the current health crisis several employees have raised the issue of safety on their commute to work. What’s the position?
Published 11.06.2020
You might have furloughed members of staff or be planning on doing so. Where an employee has been furloughed can you make them redundant during or after their furlough period?
Published 18.05.2020
Coronavirus vaccines have now been approved and are being rolled out. Can you insist that an employee discloses whether they’ve had the vaccine or is it none of your business?
Published 15.01.2021
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