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The consultation period of at least 90 days where 100 or more redundancies are proposed at one establishment is to be halved to 45 days from April 2013.
Currently, dismissals cannot take effect for the minimum period which can delay necessary changes. The consultation period is 30 days where 20 – 99 redundancies are proposed and the Government rejected calls to apply this across the board.
The change will be welcomed by employers as it enables more effective restructures with less impact on morale and productivity. Commonly, consultation is concluded within the 90 day period and employers and employees are keen to determine the outcome as soon as possible. Employers can utilise a longer consultation period if necessary however, unions are arguing that the changes make it easier to dismiss employees at a time of financial crisis.
The expiry of fixed term contracts will also be excluded from collective redundancy agreements and a new non-statutory Acas guidance for collective consultation will be introduced.
Free movement between the UK and the EU ended on 31 December 2020. Since 1 January 2021, a new points-based immigration system applies to all migrants wanting to come to the UK, whether they are EU citizens or not.
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The Government has announced a consultation exercise into the possible removal of non-compete clauses in employment contracts which will run until 26 February 2021.
The government has now announced further changes to the Job Support Scheme (now renamed the Job Support Scheme Open), with both the percentage of working hours and the employer contribution to unworked hours dropping.
On 14 October 2020, The Restriction of Public Sector Exit Payments Regulations 2020 (the “Regulations”) were made into law and will come into force on 4 November 2020.
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