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The EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) was implemented to enable EU citizens and their eligible family members who started living in the UK before 31st December 2020 to acquire pre-settled status which gives the right to live in the UK for 5 years or settled status which allows the right to remain indefinitely in the UK

The Government announced that all Plan B measures will be lifted. These measures had originally been introduced back in December 2021 in an attempt to tackle the spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19.

The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the way the world works and seems to have also transformed the way UK visa applications are submitted and processed. The Home Office consistently updates their Covid-19 policies, making it imperative for UK visa applicants to remain hypervigilant when applying for an initial visa or applying to extend their stay in the UK.

The global pandemic has drastically changed how many organisations and its employees work as they were forced to adjust to a new way of working. This new way of working had a number of consequences such as the need to find ways to ensure businesses could continue, trying to retain jobs and also dealing with feeling lonely, disconnected and out of control.

A Tribunal has ruled that a fear of catching COVID-19 is not a protected belief under the Equality Act following a UK worker’s claim that she had been discriminated against by her employer after she refused to attend work on health and safety grounds during the pandemic.

The Home Office has announced an upcoming change in the way right to work checks are to be conducted for Biometric Residence Card (BRC), Biometric Residence Permit (BRP) and Frontier Worker Permit (FWP) holders. 

Monica Atwal, Managing Partner at Clarkslegal publishes in Governance and Compliance Magazine on the UK's Gender Pay Gap - the reporting system is falling short, but what can employers do? 

Approximately 208 employers have been named and shamed by the Government in December 2021 for failing to pay their employees the minimum wage. 

With the Christmas festive season upon us, we answer five key questions to help you host celebrations that are happy and healthy.

UK businesses who hold a worker sponsor licence to employ non-settled workers must be aware of the multiple Home Office fees associated with doing so. These fees vary depending on the size of the sponsor’s organisation, the length of sponsorship, the nationality of the sponsored worker, the type of work visa, and many other factors.