18 Jul, 2023 Positive changes to UK immigration rules – automatic extensions for those with Pre-Settled Status By Edward Reed Just before Christmas 2022, the High Court ruled against the Home Office on the legality of the two-step EU Settlement Scheme application...
11 May, 2023 Non-compete clauses to be capped at three months as the Government announces post-Brexit employment law measures By Tabitha Al-Mahdawie The Government has announced a number of employment law measures in its policy paper: Smarter Regulation to Grow the Economy. The...
14 Feb, 2023 CMA joins global competition authorities in focusing on compliance in labour markets By Rachel Carter Charlie Critchley Richard Pepper The CMA has issued a publication concerning competition law compliance in labour markets. The guidance, which was published last week,...
20 Oct, 2022 No joy for UK investors just yet as immigration rule changes are published By Edward Reed The Home Office tends to serve up major changes to the Immigration Rules twice a year, in Spring and Autumn, with emergency measures...
05 Oct, 2022 How should businesses respond to the recent IR35 announcement? By Philip Swinburn Nigel Doran Jeremy McCallum The recent announcement at the “mini-Budget” to reverse the changes to the IR35 rules bring the legislation back to where it was before 6...
27 Sep, 2022 New lease of life for Company Share Option Plans? By Rasmus Berglund Tom Ingham Part of the Chancellor’s “mini-Budget” on Friday 23 September included news that, from 6 April 2023, the longstanding limit on the value...
23 Sep, 2022 Reversal of changes to off-payroll worker rules (IR35) By Philip Swinburn The Chancellor announced this morning at the “mini-Budget” that the recent changes to the “off-payroll worker” rules (commonly referred...
22 Sep, 2022 UK to begin roll-out of electronic travel authorisation programme from January 2023 By Edward Reed If you have ever travelled to the US as a visitor, you may be familiar with ESTAs. ESTA is a US government programme which allows you to...
05 Sep, 2022 Creating policies fit for purpose – hybrid working arrangements By Philip Swinburn Matthew Ramsey The Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) has released an open consultation on the emerging trends and tax implications of hybrid and...
12 Aug, 2022 Home Office resumes priority processing By Edward Reed Last week, I wrote about the issues the Home Office faces as a consequence of a surge of applications, a lack of caseworkers and the...
04 Aug, 2022 The impact of the war in Ukraine on the Home Office By Edward Reed The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 created a refugee crisis as almost four million, mostly, women and children fled the...
02 Aug, 2022 Is working from a holiday home about to become simpler? OTS launches review of remote working By Rhiannon Kinghall Were Philip Swinburn The pandemic has created a notable shift in the approach individuals and companies are taking to remote working which prompts a number of...
28 Jul, 2022 Employment status – status quo By Philip Swinburn Matthew Ramsey The thorny question of whether someone is a worker, an employee or self-employed (for employment rights purposes) and an employee or...
26 May, 2022 Can't PAYE? We'll take it away! HMRC's discretion to disapply PAYE By Jackelyn West Jamie Golding In the recent decision of Hoey v HMRC EWCA Civ 656 (Hoey), the Court of Appeal confirmed that HMRC has a very wide discretion to disapply...
14 Apr, 2022 Challenges and opportunities for ESG-linked pay in 2022 By Lucy Urwin Last week Ras Berglund and I spoke at the ESOP Centre’s 2022 Share Schemes Symposium about the growing impact of ESG on executive...
27 Jan, 2022 Trading for visas: UK considers easing visa requirements for Indian nationals By Edward Reed When the UK left the UK-EU transition period on 31 December 2021, it ended free trade of goods and services with a trading bloc of 450m...