Yesterday P&O Ferries took the decision to dismiss 800 members of their staff. While large scale dismissals may have been fairly common due to the pandemic the key difference here is that this decision came seemingly out of the blue.
Miller Samuel Hill Brown are delighted to have supported Simon Community as our charity over a two-year campaign from 2020. Initially, the fundraising campaign was impacted by the pandemic however the team put their best feet forward in a bid to raise much needed funds for people who are experiencing homelessness or are worried about their accommodation. Holding bake sales that showed unexpected talent; racking up a staggering 3,991,774 steps for the Steps Challenge; and taking part in the Virtual Kiltwalk. In the run up to Christmas, the team also organised a collection and donation of most needed items to support service users at a particularly difficult time of year.
The Coronavirus pandemic has had a wide ranging impact in ways that could not have been predicted when the first cases of the virus emerged at the end of 2019. One such change has been the law in relation to commercial evictions for non-payment of rent.
Update as at 10th May 2022 - The proposed legislation discussed in the following article (originally published in March 2022) has now been scrapped following its omission from the 2022 Queen's Speech.
