Images taken from "Inside an Impressive Mind" / University of Bristol Law School Employability event
Press release issued:
30 April 2020
Following the success of their first webinar on the Government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, the Industrial Law Society is repeating the event which was led by Professor Alan Bogg and Professor Michael Ford QC, and previously attracted over 200 attendees and included leading QCs and judges.
The repeated session, scheduled for Monday 4 May 2020 at 4.30pm, will look at the recent ‘unprecedented’ establishment of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme announced on 20 March and now set out in a Treasury direction.
Professors Bogg and Ford QC will discuss matters such as:
- How the Scheme works
- How it interacts and overlaps with existing employment rights
- The problems of applying it to atypical workers, such as agency workers
- Issues for pregnant women
- The use of trust and confidence and other arguments to compel employers to ‘furlough’
- The vexed question of rights to annual leave and furlough
These events, follow a series of blog posts co-written by Professors Alan Bogg and Michael Ford QC on the Retention Scheme, that were extensively cited in a House of Commons Library briefing paper.
Please register for the webinar by Friday 1 May. A webinar link will be emailed to participants around mid-day on Monday 4 May and there will be an opportunity to ask questions at the end of the session.
Further information
The Law School Coronavirus Research Hub brings together the work of academics at the forefront of global efforts to mitigate against the impact of COVID-19 through law and policy adaptation, and to understand the immediate and longer-lasting impacts of the pandemic.
Professor Alan Bogg is Professor of Labour Law, Co-Director of the Centre for Law at Work and an Emeritus Fellow at Hertford College, Oxford. His current research projects are examining freedom of association; common law fundamental rights; the role of criminalisation in work relations; and the future of the social democratic constitution.
Professor Michael Ford QC is a Professor of Law, a QC at Old Square Chambers, a fee-paid Employment Judge and a Deputy High Court Judge. His principal areas of research and practice are labour law, EU law and human rights. He is on the Equality and Human Rights’ Commission’s ‘A’ panel of specialist counsel and acted for them in the Supreme Court successful challenge to fees in the employment tribunal. In practice he has covered over 60 reported cases in the House of Lords, Supreme Court, Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice.
