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Varying Contractual Terms and Policies in the Time of Covid-19 and a Post-Covid-19 World Webinar

02.06.20

In this webinar, ‘Varying Contractual Terms and Policies in the Time of Covid-19 and a Post Covid-19 World’, Carol Davis KC and Joseph Bryan consider how weeks of lockdown and an uncertain future is transforming businesses and requiring employers and employees to confront the reality of multiple and wide-ranging changes to the workplace and to employees’ contracts of employment.

Carol and Joseph explored the challenges in varying contractual terms and policies as a result of Covid-19. In particular, they focused on the following:

What might need to be varied?

•        Pay and remuneration: the effect of furlough and ‘voluntary’ reductions
•        Changes to contractual and non-contractual policies: absence/sickness/home-working/conduct
•        The extent to which variations change/develop depending on changes in social distancing

How to vary terms?

•       Consultation/collective consultation
•       Unilateral changes
•       The impact of and on trust and confidence

What are the legal and business consequences?

•       Discrimination: direct and indirect
•       Trust and confidence issues in the post-Covid-19 world

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Varying Contractual Terms and Policies in the Time of Covid-19 and a Post Covid-19 World from ‘Littleton in Lockdown Employment Webinar Series’ by Littleton Chambers on Vimeo.

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