Nick looks at the UK Government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (also known as the Furlough Scheme) and how it is to operate as well as some of the potentially tricky issues for employers. To follow Nick on Twitter, please go to Nicholas Robertson@NicholasRober11.

Nick’s review of recent cases looks at a successful application for very significant costs against a claimant whose claims had been dismissed. We also have a case on the perils of leaving confidential material on the office photocopier, and, finally, one where the court had to decide whether the new employer was inducing a breach of post termination restrictive covenants applying to one of their recent recruits. To follow Nick on Twitter, please go to Nicholas Robertson@NicholasRober11.

Nick Robertson and Beth Brown present a special joint edition of the Mayer Brown Employment and Mayer Brown Pensions podcasts. We look at likely key issues across both areas in 2020. To follow Nick on Twitter, please go to Nicholas Robertson@NicholasRober11.

The three partners in the London Employment Group discuss key cases and changes in the law to look out for in 2020. To follow Nick on Twitter, please go to Nicholas Robertson@NicholasRober11.

This podcast is the second of a two part series looking at the key cases of 2019. To follow Nick on Twitter, please go to Nicholas Robertson@NicholasRober11.

This is the first of two podcasts reviewing the key employment cases in 2019. To follow Nick on Twitter, please go to Nicholas Robertson@NicholasRober11.

Nick looks at the very recent and important case which considers whether individuals properly classified as workers, rather than employees, are covered by the Transfer Regulations. Separately he looks at a recent case where a claimant tried to rely on a leaked email and another where the EAT had to consider whether to uphold an order for costs against a litigant in person. To follow Nick on Twitter, please go to Nicholas Robertson@NicholasRober11.

Nick looks at two recent and important cases on IR35 which have provided some guidance on whether PAYE needs to be operated by the end user where the individual’s services are provided via a service company. To follow Nick on Twitter, please go to Nicholas Robertson@NicholasRober11.

Nick looks at a recently reported case on protected conversations and when the conversation is still admissible in evidence, and a case on whether the Tribunal had been right to find sufficient evidence to justify a finding of unlawful discrimination. Finally we have an update on a case testing the limits of what sort of belief counts as a philosophical belief protected under the Equality Act 2010. To follow Nick on Twitter, please go to Nicholas Robertson@NicholasRober11.

Nick discusses various aspects of German labour law with Pauline Moritz of Mayer Brown’s German EBG team. To follow Nick on Twitter, please go to Nicholas Robertson@NicholasRober11.