Feature Articles

Drivers on furlough and their employers must take care to ensure that they continue to observe the requirements of both the Drivers’ Hours and Working Time Regulations. This will particularly be the case where a driver is furloughed by one employer but continues to work for another. In this article, Richard Smith looks at the different scenarios.

In its Covid-19 Recovery Strategy, the Government said that it wanted to begin a gradual return to work in England. While anyone able to work from home should continue to do so, it insisted, those who needed to be at their place of work should be looking to return as soon as employers confirmed it was safe. However, the guidance continued, what these returners should not do is overload public transport.

Can you ask your employees to undergo training while they are on furlough? Robert Spicer explains.

Commenting on a wide-ranging report on the impact of Covid-19 on international trade by the International Trade Committee, its chairman said that the Department for International Trade (DIT) would need to provide the right support to UK businesses as they rebuild as well as to lead international efforts to respond to the disease through coordinated trade policy. “Their successes and failures will affect us all”, he said.

Laura King considers how firms can manage a return to workplaces in a world that is still adjusting to Covid-19.