Retail members can benefit from ACS’ Legal Support Service. This service entitles ACS members to 30-minutes free over-the-phone consultation with legal experts.
There are a number of issues arising from Covid-19 that ACS’ Legal Support Service can help with. For example:
Employment
- Job Retention Scheme – furloughing workers; managing redundancies; holiday pay
- Returns to work
- Statutory Sick Pay – rebate scheme
- Vulnerable staff - self-isolation and shielding
- Health and safety – employer’s duty of care
- Caring responsibilities and childcare
- Emergency volunteer leave
Property
- Recovery advice – managing commercial property assets; reviewing leases; negotiating rent concessions and other temporary measures
- Leases – rent reviews; break notices; terminations
- Frustration and force majeure
- Dilapidations – making the most of lease endings
- Acquisitions and sales – advice on notice to complete; compensation for non-completion
- Managing residential tenancies – attached to shop premises
The ACS Legal Support Service also provides legal support on a range of issues not related to Covid-19, including dispute resolution, licensing, data protection, taxation and others. For more information, please give us a call on 01252 515001 and we will point you in the right direction.
For more information please email Sarah C Johnson [email protected] or call 07764927349.