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Members of Allen & Overy’s Insurance and Litigation teams held a call to discuss the extent to which business interruption policies protect against losses arising from the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak.
The call focused on: The nature of the insurance protection provided by these policies, circumstances in which cover may or may not be available and suggested future actions for clients.
Allen & Overy’s global employment team held a call on some of the major developments of interest concerning the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak, and the spectrum of emerging policy and practice impacting employee relations. The call focused on some of the immediate concerns: leaves of absence, remote working and pay arrangements, as well as those mechanisms available to businesses to cut costs, whether through redundancies and layoffs or short-time working.
The London employment team held a call on the real-time key issues caused by the recent Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak that organisations need to consider when managing their UK workforce.
We also discussed how organisations will be operating over the next three to six months.
In particular, we covered:
