Statistics show that at least 1 in 4 people in the UK experience ill mental health (such as anxiety, depression, addiction and PTSD) each year. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought many challenges to our daily lives and it is expected that the need for mental health support will increase over the coming months and years. Some workers may feel uncertain about their future livelihoods with the increasing risks of redundancy. Others may be experiencing social isolation after months of lockdown and working at home.
A public consultation launched in 2016, which received over 9,000 responses, has prompted the UK Government to commit to the creation of a new offence of ‘causing serious injury by careless driving’ and to increase the maximum penalty for causing death by driving whilst under the influence of drink/drugs from 14 years to life imprisonment.
On 18 September 2020, the department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) published the government’s response to its consultation on proposed reforms to Companies House. In its response, the government announced a number of proposals, including compulsory identity verification of directors, which are aimed at “clamp[ing] down on fraud and money laundering’.
With an accumulation of income and assets over the years, and generally decreasing outgoing expenditure, Grandparents can often find themselves in a privileged position where they can afford to provide some financial support to the lower branches of their family tree.
With no end in sight for the coronavirus pandemic and the prospect of increasing infections and disruptions, we look at the latest employment law developments.
