Feature Articles

John Barwise considers the latest summary of UK environmental tax measures published by the National Audit Office (NAO) and assesses their impact on businesses.

Tim and Caroline Hand count down the most harmful forms of waste and the strategies to neutralise them.

On 6 April 2021, new rules (IR35) come into force aiming to prevent tax avoidance by off-payroll workers claiming to be self-employed when they are better classed as “employed” and clamping down on companies who avoid employment legislation by hiring such workers. Here Richard Smith discusses the implications of these new rules for companies using self-employed or agency staff in the transport industry.

Opeyemi Ogundeji, researcher and employment law writer at Croner-i, details the Prime Minister’s roadmap out of England’s lockdown and the HR implications of it.

Opeyemi Ogundeji, researcher and employment law writer at Croner-i, explores the recent development on shielding and what this will mean for employers.

As IR35 extends to the private sector, we look at what this means for businesses that will be recruiting (including those from outside the UK), and how they need to set-up their systems to manage anyone inside or outside of IR35.

As the pandemic recedes, “normal” community action and awareness days and weeks are being pencilled back into business diaries. Jon Herbert reports on a selection of key dates.

As arguments continue on whether Covid secure measures have gone far enough, Paul Clarke considers a recent report from the Institute for Employment Rights that pulls no punches.

Following the cancellation of external summer exams for the second year running Michael Evans looks at the alternatives for 2021.

In this article, Stuart Chamberlain, Croner-i author and employment law consultant, outlines alternatives to redundancy for employers such as the Government's Job Retention Scheme (“Furlough”), while managing a pandemic such as the coronavirus (Covid-19).