Motor Industry Employment Law Bulletin

In the Winter update we traditionally look ahead to the coming year, so in this edition we take a look at the possible developments in Employment Law which are envisaged in 2023.

With the current political turmoil, this autumn it seems impossible to predict the future course for employment law over the next few years. Those of you following updates over the course of the last few years will be aware that the Employment Bill had substantial changes to employment law, but then did not form part […]

In the last two quarterly updates, we have been speculating on whether or not the array of proposed Employment Law Legislation, which was contained in the Employment Bill, would progress into Law.  The Queen’s speech has, for now at least, answered a firm ‘no’ to that question. Readers of these bulletins will remember that the […]

In the last update we looked at potential changes this year and speculated how “events” can sometimes throw a Government off its legislative agenda.  How right we were.  It remains to be seen now whether all of the proposed developments in 2022 will take place, or whether the Ukraine crisis might provide a delay to […]

As we begin 2022, we thought (as well as digressing to look at a recent case on employment status) that we would look forward to employment law changes that are anticipated in 2022.  As readers of this bulletin will be aware, Covid-19 has led to a relative freeze in legislative development as the Government’s time […]

As regular readers of this update will be aware, the Covid crisis over the last couple of years has had two major impacts on UK employment law.  Firstly, it has created whole new areas of advice, for example in understanding the intricacies of furlough, interpreting the ever-changing guidance for employers during the crisis and in […]

Thankfully the warmer months have now arrived; and with most of the coronavirus restrictions now having been lifted across the UK, fingers crossed that this summer will be a little more enjoyable than last. In this quarterly update we take a look at the Government’s updated guidance following the latest lifting of restrictions in England […]

With the successful rollout of the vaccine programme and the government having published a roadmap for the lifting of the current coronavirus restrictions, hopefully the return to a more normal way of life is on the horizon.  The impact of the pandemic on business has not however gone away and will continue to present challenges […]

While these dark days continue, and all our clients look forward with hope to full re-opening (at some point in 2021) we write again with our quarterly update of Employment Law developments.  We bring you news on some updates to furlough and we then go on to look at an interesting case on disability discrimination […]

Over the summer we paused our quarterly update to focus instead on regular Coronavirus and furlough updates (and goodness, there were an awful lot)!  We are now returning to our quarterly updates, albeit with the inevitable focus in employment law changes enforced by the virus.  In this update we are going to look at the […]