COVID-19 Updates

1st September 2020

Quarantine - What are your rights?

The Government has, very helpfully, produced a list of countries to which UK citizens can travel freely without facing mandatory quarantine upon return.

With a number of recent and rather last minute announcements where popular holiday destinations, such as Spain and France, were added to the mandatory quarantine list, many employees have found themselves in the unenviable position of returning home to face a mandatory 14 day self-isolation period for which they hadn’t planned.

17th June 2020

What risks will the new ‘Flexible Furlough Scheme’ pose to businesses?

Businesses may have been alarmed by press reports this weekend that HMRC are to be given extensive powers to crack down on “furlough misuse”.  It is anticipated that the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, may add legislation to the Finance Bill to enable HMRC to...

3rd June 2020

Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) - Cut Off Dates and 'flexible furloughing'

This is a summary of the key changes to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) announced by Chancellor Rishi Sunak on Friday 29th May 2020. The article explains important information regarding cut off dates and flexible furlough.