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New law: Landlords must comply with new laws where tenants require faster broadband
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- 01 Aug 2021
Residential landlords should review their processes so they will be able to identify notices received from an Ofcom registered operator requesting access to their properties to install and maintain broadband equipment, and respond appropriately, to avoid an access and maintenance agreement being imposed on them by the courts.
New practice: UK businesses assess risk of post-pandemic departures, and how to guard against them, as lockdown eases
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- 01 Aug 2021
UK businesses are considering how to guard against employees leaving as lockdown eases, and how to minimise the risks to their client, supplier and other relationships, confidential information and other assets if those employees move to a rival or start up on their own in competition.
New law: COVID-related legal protections for commercial tenants in arrears of rent in England extended yet again
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- 01 Aug 2021
Landlords of commercial property in England face further extensions to temporary laws that protect their commercial tenants from specified legal actions against them to recover rent arrears - and a new and unexpected ringfencing and arbitration procedure.
New alert: HMRC issues National Minimum Wage rate reminder for summer staff
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- 01 Aug 2021
Employers should check they are paying students and other summer workers in, for example, bars, hotels, shops and warehouses, at least the National Minimum Wage (NMW) following an HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) reminder that this is a legal requirement.
New practice: Building contracts should be reviewed to take account of shortage of materials and other operational issues
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- 01 Aug 2021
Businesses and individuals ordering or supplying building materials, or managing building projects, should ensure their contracts make it clear what happens if there are supply issues for building materials (given the current shortages of these) and if COVID-related staff absences and social distancing cause delays, or risk costly legal disputes.
New guidance: UK government updates data protection guidance in light of EU adequacy decision
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- 01 Aug 2021
The UK government has updated its guidance for UK organisations that receive and send personal data from and to the European Economic Area (the EU member states, plus Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein) or which operate there, following the recent data protection adequacy decision by the EU.
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