On 31st October 2020 the Prime Minister announced new financial support measures for the next period of lockdown.  New restrictions were also announced in an attempt to curb the spread of [...]

  So many employers have made good use of financial support available during the pandemic.  The nature of this support is changing at the end of this month (October 2020). The Coronavirus [...]

What does Neurodiversity mean?  Neurodiversity refers to the different ways the brain functions – how it learns, works, processes and interprets information.  Forms of [...]

If you are going to be in a court or tribunal hearing in the next few months, it is possible that it will be held over the Cloud Video Platform. This is particularly likely if it is not too [...]

How should employers bring their employees out of home working and back into the workplace post-lockdown? In July the UK Prime Minister talked about a ‘significant return to normality’ and coming [...]

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has published an analysis that shows that we are now in recession. The UK economy shrank 20.4% between April and June when compared with the first three [...]

The government has published a 60-page document this week giving their roadmap for recovery from the current restrictions. Things are still changing  and evolving very quickly – I am [...]

It is not long since we all first heard about furlough leave, and at Middleton Law Ltd we’ve had a number of people phone us and ask about it. Here are some of the more unusual things we’ve been [...]

At the moment the news bulletins and papers are full of reports about coronavirus, and what it means for all of us. The impact of the global outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19) on the UK is still [...]

Jack’s Law’ – new right to paid parental bereavement leave From 6th of April 2020 new statutory entitlements to parental bereavement leave and pay come into effect. This will make the UK one of [...]