2022 sees our Employment Essentials series reverting to the pre-pandemic monthly, rather than quarterly, format in which we bring you the latest top picks of employment law developments that may affect your business.

This month we look at:

COVID-19 update

Legislative developments

Case law updates

COVID-19 update

1. Living with COVID-19 timeline

On 21 February 2022, the Government published 'COVID-19 Response: Living with COVID-19', setting out its plan to remove the remaining coronavirus (COVID-19) domestic legal restrictions in England. Regarding the employment-related changes:

From 24 February 2022

• End of the legal requirement to self-isolate following a positive test.
• End of the legal requirement for close contacts who are not fully vaccinated to self-isolate.
• End of the legal obligation for individuals to tell their employers when they are required to self-isolate.
• End of the employer's legal obligation to prevent workers required to self-isolate to work in any place except the place where they are required to self-isolate.
• End of routine contact tracing.
• End of self-isolation support payments, and national funding for practical support and the medicine delivery service will no longer be available. (People who were instructed to self-isolate before 24 February 2022 will still be able to claim support payments within the next 42 days).

From 15 March 2022

• Vaccination will no longer be required as a condition of deployment in Care Quality Commission (CQC) registered...

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