Amendment to the Job Support Scheme (JSS)
The Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, has announced a further change to the JSS, which is set to begin on 1st November. When the scheme was originally announced, in order to claim the grant, the employee had to work a minimum of 33% of their normal working hours. As of today, this has now been reduced to 20% […]
The Job Support Scheme: making sense of the new rules
The Furlough scheme is still in place and shall continue until the end of October. So, you can still put employees on flexible furlough if they meet the requirements of the scheme. Last week and in yesterday’s briefing, Rishi Sunak announced that the job support scheme has been extended for those businesses who are in […]
New furlough?
News just in is that Rishi Sunak is considering implementing a new subsidy scheme to come into effect when the current furlough scheme comes to an end on the 31st October 2020. There are two possible proposals which have been put forward. 1. The introduction of a subsidy paid for by the state if employers were […]