Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
On Friday 20 March the government announced its Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme to reimburse employers 80% of wages paid to furloughed workers backdated to 1 March. Full details have not…
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Covid-19 Measures for individuals
We have pulled together a round-up of the key Coronavirus announcements so far for individuals including useful links to government sites. Mortgage holidays For people who find themselves in financial…
Covid-19 Measures for Business
We have pulled together a round-up of the key Coronavirus announcements so far for businesses including useful links to government sites. Statutory sick pay (SSP) Businesses with fewer than 250…
Coronovirus: do you have to pay employees who self-isolate
Employees are entitled to receive SSP (Statutory Sick Pay) where they’ve self-isolated on medical advice and pursuant to a written notice. If they voluntarily self-isolated, or they don’t have a…
Minimum wage rates announced
The government has announced a 6.2% increase in the National Living Wage (NLW), which applies to workers aged 25 and over. From 1 April 2020 the NLW will rise from…
Minimum Wage increases
The National Minimum Wage (NMW) and National Living Wage (NLW) are the legal minimum wage rates that must be paid to employees. Employers are liable to be penalised for not…
2019 Payslip Legislation
The month of April welcomes a number of legislative changes that you will be expected to adapt to, including the fact that the right to an itemised pay statement will…
Third Time’s A Charm
And boy do these gents have a lot of charm, well at least that’s what they think! Some of the braver men of Simpson Wood swapped their calculators for the…
HMRC identify record £15.6 million minimum wage underpayments
HMRC has announced that they achieved record enforcement results this year, identifying £15.6million of minimum wage underpayments. The number of workers identified as underpaid was double that in 2016/17 and…
Self-employed Class 2 National Insurance will not be scrapped
The government has decided not to proceed with plans to abolish Class 2 National Insurance Contributions (NICs) from April 2019. Class 2 NICs are currently paid at a rate of…
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