You will have received our recent update relating to the changes to the Corona Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) and furlough leave. Hopefully, many of you will now be planning how to bring your employees back to work and that may involve using the new flexible arrangements which come into force on 1st August 2020.
Just to clarify:
- Employers can claim the grant for the hours their employees are not working calculated by reference to their usual hours worked in a claim period. We don’t know quite how you will report this and we await further details in future guidance.
- Employers will need to report hours worked and the usual hours an employee would be expected to work in a claim period.
- For worked hours, employees will be paid by their employer subject to their employment contract and employers will be responsible for paying the tax and National Insurance Contributions (NICs) due on those amounts in other words you will pay the employee full pay for the hours they actually work.
- Further guidance on flexible furloughing and how employers should calculate claims will be published on 12 June.
You will need to put in writing what you have agreed with your employees in relation to their adjusted working hours.
Guidance and support
We are constantly updating and adding to our Coronavirus Dropbox. Support for getting your business going is available by signing up for our Advice Line service.
Sadly, a number of our clients are having to make redundancies and we are here to support you with that process to minimise the risks of not following the correct procedures. Please do call or email us for advice and support on this or any other matter.
