Furloughed employees due to take a period of paid family leave (such as maternity, adoption, etc) will be entitled to pay for this leave based on their usual earnings, not the amount they are receiving while furloughed.
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This criticism is valid and will not be news to HR practitioners. Since the IR35 changes were introduced in the public sector in 2017, we have been advising on the need to consider whether contractors who are deemed to be employed for tax purposes should also be onboarded as employees.
At the beginning of this week, the chancellor announced a new scheme aimed at helping small to medium sized businesses to borrow between £2,000 and £50,000.
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The government appears to have a habit of changing and adapting its Coronavirus Job Retentions Scheme (better known as the Furlough Scheme) almost daily.
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There has been a total of four iterations of the Government’s guidance surrounding its Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme...
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With everything else that’s going on at the moment it is easy to forget about the employment law changes which came into force in April. As a reminder, here are some of the key changes:
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Yesterday evening, the government provided updated guidance on apprenticeships in relation to furlough
This weekend the government provided updated guidance on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme...
The Chancellor has just announced the Government’s package of support for the self-employed; the Self-Employed Income Support Scheme.
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The Act also gives HMRC the power to set out how this funding will work in practice. However, no details have yet been formally set out...
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