Coronavirus

COVID-19: dismissal for refusal to return to work

An employee dismissed for leaving work and refusing to return because of COVID-19-related concerns was not automatically unfairly dismissed.

A complete lack of any consultation or selection process, allied to notifying staff of redundancies via a Facebook post, led to unfair dismissal.

Administrators can place a company’s employees on furlough and claim for their wages under the Job Retention Scheme.

A disabled employee’s dismissal was not discrimination arising from a disability because it...

Three pay research bodies have published pay data for the three months to the end of December...

A consultation has been published on a statutory code of practice covering dismissal and...