Cafes, restaurants, pubs, snack bars and the like will benefit from plans to make the temporary COVID-related pavement licence scheme for ‘removable pavement furniture’ permanent, but face increased licence fees from 30 September 2022.
Landlords and tenants of commercial property in England and Wales still trying to agree how to deal with arrears of rent built up because of COVID-19 will welcome an updated Code of Practice ‘Guidance: Commercial rent code of practice following the COVID-19 pandemic’ to help them negotiate a resolution.
The remaining temporary insolvency measures imposed by the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 expire today (31 March 2022).
Our Employment team are seeing an increase in the number of well-known employers aiming to nudge unvaccinated employees into taking the COVID-19 vaccine by reducing benefits such as enhanced sick pay.
Landlords and tenants of commercial property in England are assessing newly-published details for the proposed new ringfencing and arbitration procedure to apply where tenants owe arrears of rent that built up during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Prime Minister announced the move to plan B in England earlier this week, but what does this mean for you and your business?
Landlords of commercial property in England face further extensions to temporary laws that protect their commercial tenants from specified legal actions against them to recover rent arrears – and a new and unexpected ringfencing and arbitration procedure.
As the furlough scheme begins to wind up we are likely to see an increase in the number of employees leaving their roles via settlement agreement. These are commonly used agreements designed to provide for a “clean break”.
Head of Employment Law, David Bradley, has featured on workingwise.co.uk weighing in on the compulsory Covid-19 vaccine debate.
The government has ended its temporary relaxations on how a limited company’s shareholders can ‘meet’ to make decisions, initially introduced because of the COVID-19 restrictions on gatherings, and the extensions to certain time limits for filing information at Companies House.
Our Head of Employment, David Bradley has featured in ‘The Carer’, discussing whether or not the no jab or no job policy can be enforced in the care industry.
We are experiencing an increase in enquiries regarding the corporate structures of our clients to ensure they are fit for the future as they seek to protect profitable or asset rich parts of their business from those which have or could run in to difficulties due to the pandemic.
Businesses who lease premises but whose workforce may not all return to work when COVID-19 restrictions are eased are considering whether to look for smaller premises, or to reduce the space they rent – but need to know how they can get out of their existing lease, or vary it, to achieve what they want.
The pandemic caused by Covid-19 and the resulting restrictions has touched all of us personally and in the way we conduct business. For some, the future will bring a change of direction and for others a renewed ambition to take our businesses to a new level. Change they say is a constant and never has that been more true.
The government announced on 10th March 2021 that it would again extend the temporary ban on forfeiture (termination of a lease) for non-payment of rent from 31st March 2021 until 30th June 2021.
This area has been an integral feature of the pandemic. How we manage resource (and pay for it) and retain the best mix of talent for the future. We also know that a majority of businesses are considering additional hiring over the course of the rest of the year.
A new report published by the Care quality Commission has found that over 500 people have had their human rights breached as a result of healthcare workers failing to make the proper considerations required to make the orders.
An Employment Tribunal has ruled in the case of Kubilius v Kent Foods Ltd ET/3201960/2020 that an employer’s decision to dismiss an employee for refusing to wear a face mask at one of their client’s premises was fair.
Following the Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s budget announcement and our subsequent blog explaining the extension of the Stamp Duty holiday. This week we take a look at how the news has been received in the property industry and how this may affect the market in the coming months.
The pandemic caused by Covid-19 and the resulting restrictions has touched all of us personally and in the way we conduct business.
It is well known that Kate Garraway’s husband contracted Covid-19 at the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020.
Nicole Natur, Employment Solicitor at Ramsdens, has featured on MY Grapevine, discussing how gender parity and representation across all levels of seniority is something that “all employers should strive for”.
Nazia Nawaz, Head of our Contentious Probate team, has featured on Lawyer Monthly, discussing whether the pandemic and remote working has halted diversity’s and inclusion progress in law?
Our Employment Law Solicitor, Nicole Natur, joined discussions with Kait Borsay on Times Radio over the weekend to provide her legal expertise on discrimination against pregnant women in the workplace, an issue which has come to the forefront during the pandemic.
This week we’re supporting ‘UK Says No More week – a national campaign aimed at ending domestic abuse and sexual violence across the UK.
The chancellor has announced a £15million package for support for domestic abuse programmes. This follows a previous increase in funding for domestic abuse services during the first national lockdown last year amid the huge rise in domestic abuse and has almost doubled the funding towards domestic abuse in the 2020 budget.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, has announced the Budget for 2021 and has confirmed that the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (also known as furlough scheme) will be extended further beyond the end of April to the end of September.
In the March Budget, the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak made two housing announcements.
The impact of the pandemic since March 2020 and the restrictions and lockdowns that have resulted from it have intensified the risk factors that put children at risk of abuse.
Our Head of Employment, David Bradley, joined discussions with Rachel Burden on BBC Radio 5 Live this morning to provide his legal expertise on the issues around a ‘no jab, no job policy that some employers may wish to introduce.
