Businesses are starting to reopen and the furlough scheme is winding down. This transition needs to be planned carefully, including thinking about health and safety, workplace testing and training. Watch the recording below for a short, sharp update on the key issues you need to consider, what problems might arise and how to handle them.
Our experts Jane Amphlett, Head of Employment, Alex Mizzi, Legal Director, Senior Associate Anjali Raval and Associate Chiara Muston, discussed key questions on:
Our panel of expert lawyers will guide you through what you need to know when preparing to reopen your business
Jane Amphlett
Head of Employment
Howard Kennedy
Jane Amphlett
Jane is Head of Employment at Howard Kennedy. She advises businesses and individuals, with a particular focus on regulated sectors, on a wide range of complex employment matters and disputes. She is well known for providing strategic and pragmatic advice and is acknowledged in Chambers UK 2021 as a recognised practitioner. Her focus is on discrimination, whistleblowing and harassment claims, Board appointments/restructures and contentious exits, strategic advice on team moves and defence of restrictive covenant, confidentiality and garden leave disputes.
Jane is recognised as a leading expert on discrimination law and provides advice and training on discrimination and harassment prevention strategies and claims.
Alexandra Mizzi
Legal Director
Howard Kennedy
Alexandra Mizzi
Alex Mizzi is an employment lawyer providing pragmatic, tailored advice to businesses and senior executives on all aspects of employment law, including business protection, employee relations, HR strategy and discrimination. Alex is a Legal Director in the Employment team. She advises businesses of all sizes and senior executives on contentious and non-contentious employment matters. She works closely with HR Directors and business owners to help them navigate through complex employee relations issues, often involving discrimination or whistleblowing allegations, to find a pragmatic solution. She also advises HR professionals on strategic and governance issues such as gender pay gap reporting or implementing large-scale business changes.
Chiara Muston
Associate
Howard Kennedy
Chiara Muston
Chiara Muston is a dual qualified lawyer (Italy and England) specialising in employment law. She is highly experienced in advising clients on domestic and cross-border matters concerning all aspects of employment relationships and industrial relations, both contentious and transactional. Chiara has particular expertise in advising companies in the leisure, hospitality, automotive, telecommunications and gig economy sectors. She has been involved in their setting up, management, expansion, re-organisation and winding up phases, as well as strategic business decisions, such as implementing the government's furlough scheme (CJRS) and planning the return to work of staff, addressing health and safety as well as data protection issues.
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Businesses are starting to reopen and the furlough scheme is winding down. Watch the recording below for a short, sharp update on the key issues you need to consider, what problems might arise and how to handle them.
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