How does NOT being Vaccinated impact Working Life?
PART OF THIS ARTICLE FIRST APPEARED IN FORBES MAGAZINE
15th October 2021
Kyrie Irving is paid pretty well to play basketball. His contract with the Brooklyn Nets calls for him to make $34.9 million in salary this season, and his celebrity status brings in another $15 million off the court from memorabilia, licensing and endorsement deals with brands like Nike and Panini.
This year, though, he’s made a conscious decision to give up a good chunk of that compensation.
“The financial consequences, I know I do not want to even do that, but it is reality that in order to be in New York City, in order to be on a team, I have to be vaccinated,” the 29-year-old All-Star point guard said Wednesday night on Instagram Live as he ended weeks of speculation about his Covid-19 vaccination status, which had been one of the sport’s worst-kept secrets. “I chose to be unvaccinated, and that was my choice, and I would ask you all to just respect that choice.”
Protecting jobs and livelihoods of the British People - The Budget at a glance
Executive Summary
Rishi Sunak’s budget follows a year of extraordinary economic challenge as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Like that of many other countries, the UK’s economy has been hit hard, with both the direct effects of the virus and the measures necessary to control it leading to an unprecedented fall in output and higher unemployment.
In the face of this threat, the government acted swiftly to provide support to protect businesses, individuals and public services across the UK, adapting its economic response as the pandemic evolved. Thanks to people’s hard work and sacrifice, supported by the success of the initial stages of the vaccine rollout, there is now a path to the reopening of the economy.
The Budget sets out how the government will extend its economic support to reflect the cautious easing of social distancing rules and the reopening of the economy in the government’s roadmap.1 Support in the Budget reflects the easing of restrictions to enable the private sector to bounce back as quickly as possible.
As the economy reopens, the Budget sets out the steps the government is taking to support the recovery, ensuring the economy can build back better, with radical new incentives for business investment and help for businesses to attract the capital, ideas and talent to grow.
Myth Buster - Verbal Contracts are NOT Valid Contracts
This is a fairly common myth, but an important one. Why? Because a verbal employment contract, or one that is only ‘implied’, can be legally binding, meaning you can make a job offer without realising it.
If you make any form of promise relating to the individual’s employment, this refers to an ‘implied’ contract. If you discuss contract details with the individual, such as job duties, work hours, or pay & benefits, then this is an explicit verbal employment contract.
A binding agreement can be formed on the basis of verbal statements or via information from an employee handbook or company policy. This is because a large portion of the details in the handbook will be similar to those found in a written contract.
How to avoid an implied contract
Avoid making specific promises during the interview stage, or in the job offer letter should you choose to hire the individual. Such promises can include things like:-
“We’ll never fire you”
“You’re guaranteed to have a job here for the next 5 years”
But they can also be more subtle:
“Your pay & benefit package will be…”
“When your probationary period finishes…”
Furlough - Introduced into the English Language in the 1600s. Now one of the most commonly referred to words in the UK.
Furlough, what does it mean and how is the word pronounced? Does it rhyme with Rough or Dough? This tells you just how uncommon the word is, or was until March 2020.
Employment Law is bound by a very specific set of rules that impacts every working person, and of course it’s important that an employee understands their rights. The impact of Covid-19 has caused a “domino effect” (understatement) in every aspect of life as we knew it, none more serious than a person’s livelihood. By the end of Week 2 of the lockdown, 1 million people had registered on the DWP website applying for Universal Credit. There are no statistics available that provide the background of applicants, yet needless to say there is a much greater need than before this crisis for help .