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  • ARAG defies pandemic challenges to report double-digit growth for 2021
    ARAG defies pandemic challenges to report double-digit growth for 2021

    Legal expenses insurance and assistance provider ARAG has reported its twelfth profitable year in succession, during which the company’s premium under management topped £50 million, for the first time. 03/05/2022

  • April shower of changes for employers
    April shower of changes for employers

    After two full years of surviving all that the pandemic has thrown at them, employers might be forgiven for thinking they deserved a little respite from the continually shifting sands of employment regulation. But April, when the new tax year begins, is inevitably the time when changes to employment law are most often introduced, and 2022 is no exception. 15/02/2022

  • Caution urged for company Christmas parties
    Caution urged for company Christmas parties

    While the return of the company party is most welcome, after Christmas was effectively cancelled last year. Employers need to be careful, in the face of stubbornly high Covid-19 case numbers and the recently discovered Omicron variant. 01/12/2021

  • ARAG engages with FCA to reduce broker burden
    ARAG engages with FCA to reduce broker burden

    While there has been plenty of talk about the FCA’s new rules on pricing and the reporting of value measures data, little of it has focussed on the sale of ancillary products or “add-ons”, aside from some mention of the fact that premium finance will be classed as an add-on. 30/09/2021

  • Caution over compulsory jabs for care sector
    Caution over compulsory jabs for care sector

    Few would argue that the care sector was not among the hardest hit by the pandemic. The high numbers of deaths in care homes, not just among residents but also among staff, coupled with shortages of protective equipment and heightened recruitment challenges as the UK left the EU, all threatened to overwhelm the industry in 2020. 21/09/2021

  • Employment FAQs
    Employment FAQs

    The level of grant available to employers changes from 1 July 2021. (Updated on 01/07/2021)

  • SMEs’ need for legal protection has never been greater
    SMEs’ need for legal protection has never been greater

    The unique pressures that 2021 is placing on businesses have made legal expenses or employment practices liability (EPL) cover indispensable for small and medium-sized companies, throughout the UK. (Published on 13/05/2021)

  • How has Covid-19 affected access to justice? Part 3
    How has Covid-19 affected access to justice? Part 3

    Part 3 in our article series looks at the impact of the pandemic on the legal system and what part legal protection has to play in the future. (Published on 10/05/2021)

  • How has Covid-19 affected access to justice? Part 2
    How has Covid-19 affected access to justice? Part 2

    Part 2 in our article series looks at Underinvestment in our justice system. Published on 03/05/2021

  • How has Covid-19 affected access to justice? Part 1
    How has Covid-19 affected access to justice? Part 1

    Part one of our article series looking at how every aspect of life has been touched by the pandemic in numerous ways, and many are far less obvious to all but those who work in them. (Published on 26/04/2021)

  • IR35 – Will The Rule Changes Affect Your Business?
    IR35 – Will The Rule Changes Affect Your Business?

    The implications of HMRC’s rules known as ‘IR35’ have been around for a number of years. (Published on 20/04/2021)

  • What is IR35 and what is changing this year?
    What is IR35 and what is changing this year?

    IR35 is the name given to some tax rules that were designed to stop people from paying less in tax and National Insurance contributions by claiming to be independent contractors when they are really employees. (Published on 23/03/2021)

  • Employment tribunal numbers  and backlog still growing
    Employment tribunal numbers and backlog still growing

    The influx of employment tribunal claims and the backlog of cases, which already reached record highs in February, is unlikely to have peaked. Published on 12/03/2021

  • 2021 - A quiet year for employment legislation, if not for employers
    2021 - A quiet year for employment legislation, if not for employers

    Between managing the response to the coronavirus pandemic and dealing with the various implications of leaving the European Union, it may come as something of a surprise to businesses that there is any new law on the horizon, from our legislators. (Published on 09/02/2021)

  • Webinar - Taking Care of the Carers
    Webinar - Taking Care of the Carers

    We held another webinar this week for the second in our Talk to the Experts series, looking this time at the issues facing the care sector which has obviously faced enormous and unique challenges throughout the coronavirus pandemic, raising a multitude of legal questions for care providers. (Published on 11/09/2020)

  • The truth about Employment Tribunals
    The truth about Employment Tribunals

    I am a little behind commenting on this interesting item reported by Legal Futures as their bulletin got gobbled up by my junk folder, but on retrieving this, it is well worth a read. Legal Futures have summarised findings from a BEIS survey conducted back in 2018 but which was only published last week. (Published on 22/072020)

  • Expert view: Hauling out of lockdown
    Expert view: Hauling out of lockdown

    As part of our Talk with the Experts series, we held a webinar this week focussing on the road haulage sector and how the pandemic and lockdown have created new challenges for both operators and the regulators overseeing them. (Published on 20/07/2020)

  •  Flexible Furlough Scheme
    Flexible Furlough Scheme

    As expected, further guidance was published on 12 June on the newest development in the successful Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme – flexible furloughing. Until now, furloughed workers have been unable to carry out any work for their employers whatsoever. However, from 1 July, employees can move to a flexible furloughing arrangement in which they can work under any part-time arrangement, being paid their normal wage for working hours, whilst employers can still apply for the furlough grant for the remainder of their usual working hours. (Published on 15/07/2020)

  • COVID-19 Employer FAQs
    COVID-19 Employer FAQs

    On Thursday 24 September 2020, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak announced the new Jobs Support Scheme, which will run for six months from the start of November, once the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme comes to an end. (Updated on 24/09/2020 - Published on 03/04/2020)

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