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New practice: Employers whose workforce will continue to work from home as COVID-19 restrictions are removed should formalise matters to avoid legal claims
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- 01 Jul 2021
Employers who plan to continue to allow home working on a significant scale, even when no longer required to do so under COVID-related restrictions, should ensure they formalise matters rather than continue to rely on any temporary, informal arrangements that applied during the restrictions.
New consultation: Government consults on changes to intellectual property ‘exhaustion’ rules to protect UK businesses against competition from EEA rivals
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- 01 Jul 2021
UK businesses selling products benefiting from intellectual property (IP) rights to customers in the EEA will welcome a UK government consultation on the future application of the ‘exhaustion’ regime to those sales, which could reduce competition from EEA rivals in the UK.
New guidance: Government updates guidance on calculating National Minimum Wage for workers sleeping in
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- 01 Jul 2021
Organisations whose workers sleep in at work will welcome updates to the government’s guidance on how to calculate whether they are paying at least the National Minimum Wage to such workers.
New law: Changes to the way legal rulings are recognised and enforced now that the UK has left the EU
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- 01 Jul 2021
UK businesses and individuals that may end up in legal disputes with businesses or individuals in an EU country – such as customers, suppliers, commercial partners, etc - should consider the impact on them of Brexit-related changes to the way legal decisions made by the courts in such disputes are recognised and can be enforced.
New law: New food labelling laws for retailers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland from October 2021
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- 01 Jul 2021
Food retailers such as coffee shops and takeaways in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are preparing for new labelling law for ‘prepacked food for direct sale’ from 1 October 2021.
New law: Landlords may not be able to recover rent arrears from residential tenants because of new ‘breathing space’ laws
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- 01 Jul 2021
Landlords need to be aware of a new Breathing Space scheme which allows individuals who are in debt to apply for a ‘breathing space’, during which they try to sort out their finances and the landlord cannot recover arrears of rent.
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