With good progress being made on the Government’s proposed roadmap out of lockdown and the vaccination roll out, we consider when office-based employers can bring workers back to the workplace.

In Rodgers v Leeds Laser Cutting Ltd an Employment Tribunal decided that it was not automatically unfair to dismiss an employee who refused to attend work because he was worried about catching COVID-19 and giving it to his children.

This is our detailed guide to next phase of the furlough scheme which runs between 1 May 2021 and 30 September 2021. This guide was last updated on 28 April 2021.