The unprecedented Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) is coming to end, as scheduled, on 31 October. As covered in our previous bulletin, the CJRS is being replaced by the Job Support Scheme (JSS)....more
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, today announced a number of “radical interventions in the UK Labour market” with the aim of protecting UK jobs over the winter period. These include a new Job Support Scheme which...more
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, yesterday announced a number of significant measures with the aim of bolstering the UK economy. These were wide-ranging and included several employment-specific proposals....more
The UK Government announced yesterday that entitlement to statutory sick pay (SSP) has been extended to people who are told to isolate under the new “test and trace” system. This means that someone who self-isolates for 14...more
Extension of Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme -
The UK government announced yesterday (Tuesday 12 May) that the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme will be extended for a further four months, until the end of October...more
The online portal for the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (“CJRS”) opened this week and has already had a huge amount of traffic, with HMRC reporting that 67,000 claims were made within the first 30 minutes of going live....more