Employment and Business Immigration
2nd April 2020
Government warns banks about refusing loans to businesses During the government’s daily Coronavirus briefing, the Business Secretary responded to published...
Employment and Business Immigration
1st April 2020
Right to work checks – temporary measures introduced The Home Office has provided guidance to businesses on how to carry...
Employment and Business Immigration
31st March 2020
The Home Office on 30 March 2020 provided guidance to businesses on how to carry out Right to Work Checks...
Employment and Business Immigration
31st March 2020
UK government: “Premature to put timeline on social distancing restrictions” Yesterday, journalists pressed the government to confirm its view expressed...
Employment and Business Immigration
30th March 2020
The Government have published further details about the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS). The key elements of the CJRS are...
Employment and Business Immigration
29th March 2020
Further to the Government’s announcement The Working Time (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 were laid before Parliament on 27 March 2020,...
Employment and Business Immigration
27th March 2020
New income support scheme for the self-employed UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled the details of the government’s relief for the...
Employment and Business Immigration
26th March 2020
405,000 people answer the call for NHS volunteers During the government’s daily news conference, the Prime Minister revealed that in...
Employment and Business Immigration
25th March 2020
Government calls for 250 thousand volunteers who will be eligible for unpaid leave from their jobs During the government’s daily...
Employment and Business Immigration
21st March 2020
The Chancellor has announced a package of measures to protect millions of people’s jobs and support incomes, including the self-employed,...
Employment and Business Immigration
20th March 2020
As school’s prepare for scheduled shutdown to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, the government has published it’s list of ‘key workers’,...
Employment and Business Immigration
31st January 2020
The UK government is changing the off-payroll working rules on the tax treatment of certain contractors. The changes will affect...
Employment and Business Immigration
17th October 2019
Following the appointment to the Employment Team of Sundeep Rathod as Senior Associate and Head of Business Immigration, we can...
Employment and Business Immigration
16th September 2019
Following our recent posts notifying of the Government’s commission to the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC), the MAC has now issued...
Employment and Business Immigration
5th September 2019
The Government has today set out their policy paper on immigration arrangements into the UK for EEA citizens and their...
Employment and Business Immigration
5th August 2019
Today, we publish our 2019 diversity survey results. The information presented was gathered in an anonymous survey for the Solicitors...
Employment and Business Immigration
21st June 2019
Against the background of the increased awareness of the unacceptable nature and scale of harassment raised by the #Me Too...
Crime and Regulatory
29th September 2014
SM&B’s Business Crime and Regulatory and Employment departments join forces to launch a cybercrime defence and investigation initiative. In response...
