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New practice: Employers making redundancies as COVID-19 restrictions ease should beware inadvertent discrimination against disabled employees
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- 01 Jun 2021
Employers considering redundancies as COVID restrictions ease should beware inadvertently discriminating either directly or indirectly against disabled employees when choosing who to let go and take care when considering whether they need to make ‘reasonable adjustments’ for disabled employees.
New practice: Employers may need access to employees’ private phones, email, social media accounts, etc to satisfy data protection obligations
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- 01 Jun 2021
Employers whose employees are allowed to use their own phones, computers or tablets, private email accounts and messaging services, or personal accounts on social or business media such as Twitter, LinkedIn, WhatsApp or Instagram for work purposes should ensure they are able to require their employees to give them access to personal data held on those phones, accounts etc where this is required to comply with data protection laws.
New practice: Owner/directors of small limited companies whose profits have been hit by COVID-19 may have to repay drawings
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- 01 Jun 2021
Limited company shareholder/directors who have taken drawings out of their companies during the pandemic to pay personal, non-business expenses (such as holidays or school fees) may find they have to repay these sums if the company does not have enough profits to pay them a dividend to clear their debt.
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