2021: An outlook for Employers
Published 3 months ago
Aleksandra Traczyk, Solicitor at Winckworth Sherwood
2020 has thrown up challenges no one could have foreseen, so how can your business prepare for 2021 in light of Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic?
Brexit
31 December 2020, will not only mark the end of 2020, which has been a year like no other, it will also mark the end of the Brexit transition period.
In terms of changes to the employment law landscape, from 1 January 2021 any legislative change is unlikely to come immediately and the scope of any deregulation may be limited by level playing field provisions included as part of any trade deal with the EU. The changes to retained ECJ case law are also likely to take time since cases will first need to reach the appellate court level for any departure to happen. From an immigration perspective, the changes are going to be more immediate as on 1 January 2021 the new points based system will be implemented for new arrivals from the EU, EEA and Switzerland.