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Online grocer Ocado have announced that they will be allowing staff to work remotely from any overseas location of choice for one month each year. This bid comes as employers start to re-think their ways of working and how these may change post pandemic.
Employment agency Reed has reported a 20% increase in the number of new positions offering unlimited annual leave as part of the benefits packages. Along with flexible working, it seems to be incentive employers are keen to explore and use as they compete to recruit the best talent from a pandemic weary workforce that values well-being and work-life balance.
Employment agency Reed has reported a 20% increase in the number of new positions offering unlimited annual leave as part of the benefits packages.
Clarkslegal Employment Associate, Deborah Scales, comments in The Sun on whether employers can stop employees taking foreign holidays.
So called 'Freedom Day' was justified by the government in part because of the huge success of the vaccine roll-out in England. How much reliance can employers put on vaccination status when planning a safe return to the physical workplace?
The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has been billed a staggering £87.9 million by HMRC for failing to correctly determine the tax status of its contractors.
The Government has published its consultation response on workplace sexual harassment and harassment by third parties. The consultation was undertaken in response to the #metoo movement, which revealed that many people (mainly women) experienced sexual harassment at work despite this having been unlawful for decades.
As the stay at home order has been lifted employers will be looking at how they can bring their employees back safely. This will mean reviewing the workplace risk assessments and internal policies and procedures to ensure they are protecting their employees H&S by providing a safe place of work. Employers will have to make decisions about what they ask employees about vaccination status, testing and other protective measure such as mask wearing and how that plays out into conduct policies and managing their data protection obligations.
From the 19th July, the Government has decided that all legal restrictions, which have underpinned England’s public health response to the Covid-19 pandemic, will lapse.
