The Coronavirus Act 2020 received Royal Assent on Wednesday this week. This new piece of legislation introduces a number of emergency measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including a change to the current SSP scheme so that SSP is payable from the first day of sickness or self-isolation and can be funded by HMRC.

The other new right introduced by the legislation is the right to Emergency Volunteering Leave. This new right enables emergency volunteers in health or social care to take unpaid time off work and receive compensation for loss of earnings.

Now declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation and affecting more of the population every day we...

If you’re needing to calculate a statutory redundancy entitlement for an employee with at least two years’ service, the capped amount of a week’s pay for the calculation

It has long been the case that when an employee is taken on for more than one month there is a legal requirement to provide them with a written statement of particulars of employment within the first two months of their employment. In practice, the information that an employer must include in that written statement forms part of a more comprehensive contract of employment.

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Please note that due to Covid-19 the new IR35 rules discussed below have now been postponed until 6 April...

The government has published new regulations to introduce two weeks’ paid bereavement leave for parents following the death of a child aged under 18, or suffer a stillbirth from 24 weeks of pregnancy.

We are delighted to welcome Simona Hamblet to JMA HR & Legal as a part-time consultant solicitor…

Following the Conservative party’s success at the general election on 12 December 2019 the withdrawal agreement agreed with the EU on 17 October 2019 (as well as the previously agreed, and related, EEA EFTA Separation Agreement and Swiss Citizens’ Rights Agreement) is now likely to be implemented. Under this latest withdrawal agreement the provisions on citizens’ rights essentially remain unchanged from the previous version.