1) This morning the Government announced that an online Coronavirus Statutory Sick Pay Rebate Scheme will be launched on 26 May for small and medium-sized employers to recover Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) payments they have made to their employees due to COVID-19-related absence. Employers with a PAYE payroll scheme that was created and started on … Read more

The UK Government has this morning updated its guidance on self-isolation for COVID-19, reflecting updated medical advice.  From today: individuals will need to self-isolate immediately if they develop a new continuous cough or fever or a loss or changed sense of normal smell or taste (anosmia).   The individual should stay at home for 7 days, … Read more

Yesterday the Government updated guidance on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS). The guidance has now been split into a number of separate web pages and the text moved between or within pages, but the only substantive changes are: The guidance now reflects this week’s announcement confirming the extension of the CJRS in its current … Read more

The Chancellor has just announced in Parliament that: the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme will continue without change until the end of July the Scheme will remain in place and available to all sectors through to the end of October, but from August there will be greater flexibility. Employers currently using the scheme will be able … Read more

New workplace guidance covering 8 workplace settings has now been published by BEIS: Construction and other outdoor work Factories, plants and warehouses Home environments Labs and research facilities Offices and contact centres Restaurants offering takeaway or delivery Shops and branches Vehicles (covering couriers, mobile workers, lorry drivers, on-site transit and work vehicles, field forces and … Read more

Following the Prime Minister’s announcement yesterday evening, the Government has today published some further details of its roadmap for coming out of lockdown, OUR PLAN TO REBUILD: The UK Government’s COVID-19 recovery strategy. This makes clear that the change in emphasis highlighted by the Prime Minister is intended to apply from Wednesday 13  May. The … Read more

HMRC has this afternoon published updated versions of its guidance on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. An important change is to eligibility for TUPE transferees. The updated guidance for employers on checking eligibility to claim now states that “a new employer is eligible to claim under the CJRS in respect of the employees of a … Read more

Minor changes to HMRC’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme Guidance continue to be made.  The main changes made on 23 April are as follows: It has been clarified that employees who are made redundant or stop working after 19 March (and for whom an RTI payment submission has been made on or before that date) can … Read more