Matt Jenkin, Moorcrofts Employment Partner will join Howden’s Employee Benefits & HR thought-leader Steve Herbert, deliver Howden’s first Employment webinar of 2021. The webinar, taking place on Thursday 11 March will cover the following topics: Agenda and Timings 10:00: Delegate…
Moorcrofts corporate team has advised XCD HR Limited (“XCD”) on a c.£2m investment in Bristol-based XCD, the provider of the UK’s only HR and Net Payroll solution on the Salesforce platform. Founded around 10 years ago, XCD’s HR & Payroll…
A recent report in the Guardian has highlighted the pressure that the Government is coming under to extend the furlough scheme beyond the current end of April 2021 cut off point. The furlough scheme, which was first introduced back in…
The business secretary has confirmed to the press that his department is reviewing how UK employment law rights could change, post-Brexit, including the rules on working time. This comes amidst claims from the FT newspaper that the government is planning…
Moorcrofts Joint Managing Partner and Head of Tech, Andrew Katz, took part in the European Open Source & Free Software Law Event’s (EOLE) second webinar, on the topic of public sector collaborations around FOSS projects. About the Public sector collaborations…
One of the major changes to the furlough scheme when it was extended originally to end of March 2021 and then to end of April 2021, is the publication of information about employers who are claiming under the furlough scheme….
2020 saw many businesses facing employment law challenges as the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic was felt. With 2021 likely to bring similar issues, the Employment Team at Moorcrofts are hosting a free employment law update webinar on Tuesday 2…
Moorcrofts’ corporate team has advised Skillweb.co.uk Ltd. (Skillweb), a leading UK based software development and solutions company, on the sale of its “Houndit” business to Escher Software Services UK Limited (part of Hanover Investors private equity group). The “Houndit” business…
The Chancellor has just announced that the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (the furlough scheme) has been extended until 30 April 2021: Chancellor extends furlough and loan schemes The scheme was originally due to end on 31 October 2020. This was then…
The third OpenChain UK Work Group meeting is being held via Zoom on Thursday 3 December from 14:00 – 16:00 GMT. The meeting will be an interactive session with plenty of opportunity to ask questions about OpenChain adoption, which hopefully…
In September the Government published its response to a consultation on Corporate Transparency and Register Reform. The Government’s response has set out a number of suggestions to improve corporate transparency along with improvement of the reliability and accuracy of information…
Further to our update on the Government’s decision to extend the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) to 31 March 2021, the Government has now published further guidance on how this extended furlough scheme will operate. In terms of the guidance…