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Under the newly enforced National Minimum Wage (Offshore Employment) (Amendment) Order 2020, over 10,000 seafarers across the UK are now entitled to be paid at least the national minimum wage (NMW) …

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The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Self-Isolation) (England) Regulations 2020 are now in force …

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Eligible health and care workers may now claim an immigration health surcharge (IHS) reimbursement online …

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Before moving onto the JSS, employers should determine if having employees available to them for one third of their time can still be realistically employed …

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The Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) has just published a review of the occupation shortage list for 2020 …

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When the current furlough-based job retention scheme comes to an end on 31st October 2020, it will be replaced by a short-time working scheme (JSS) …

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The government has recently confirmed that the minimum private pension age will increase from 55 to 57 in 2028 …

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Many organisations use the services of external bodies and individuals to perform activities such as secure contracts in new markets, undertake transactions on their behalf, or simply to act as a locally responsible point of contact to accept legal documents intended for them …

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The Home Office is ending the Tier 4 visa entry route and replacing it with a new “Student visa” …

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Passengers arriving from abroad must complete on-line a public health locator form 48 hours before arrival …

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A ban comes into force on September 14th 2020 against all social gatherings, indoors or outdoors, of six or more people …

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The Permanent Secretary in charge of revenue services, Jim Harra, has advised the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee that an estimated 5-10% of claims by employers for job furlough payments were being investigated as potentially fraudulent …

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For many years, some employers operated loan schemes in which employees (and some contractors via umbrella companies) were paid “disguised remuneration” in the form of loans from an employer sponsored “benefit trust fund” …

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The Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, has announced that the government is not going to make the wearing of face masks compulsory in workplaces, in spite of a requirement to wear masks on public transport, in shops, post offices, libraries, community centres and many other indoor settings …

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The government is proposing to amend the filtering mechanism for data automatically disclosed through both “standard” and “enhanced” criminal records certificates, issued mainly to prospective employers by the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) …

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