The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published a range of guidance, which you may find useful for your business. It includes information on: using PPE and face masks at work – guidance for healthcare workers, including facefit tests and advice on PPE for non-healthcare workers regulating occupational health and safety – outlining HSE's regulatory approach during the outbreak divers' medical fitness and assessment – when to return to diving after COVID-19 infection and arrangements...
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As part of the UK Government’s support for businesses during COVID-19, HMRC gave businesses the option of deferring their VAT payments if they were unable to pay on time, without incurring late payment interest or penalties. Payment of VAT falling due between 20 March and 30 June 2020 can be deferred until 31 March 2021. You must continue to file your VAT return on time, even if you defer payment. The option to defer paying...
The UK Government’s Statutory Sick Pay Rebate Scheme continues to provide financial support to small and medium-sized employers. If you’re an employer with fewer than 250 employees, and if you’ve paid SSP to employees for coronavirus-related sickness absence, you could be eligible for support. You can also speak to your tax agent about making claims on your behalf. For further information please visit the GOV.UK website.
Salesforce is partnering with Enterprise Nation to offer eligible small businesses the opportunity to receive a £5,000 grant to help them through the COVID-19 outbreak. To be eligible to apply, companies must: be registered at Companies House been established for at least 12 months have not received any other cash grant during 2020 in relation to COVID-19 from any Government be based in the UK with a British bank account have between 2 to 50...
The Welsh Government have updated their guidance on the closure of businesses and premises in Wales as some of the restrictions are now being eased. The guidance includes: businesses and premises that must remain closed work carried out in people’s homes length of closure compliance financial support business support How do I get advice about what I can and can’t do? The Welsh Government has issued guidance to accompany the regulations and these answers to...
HMRC publishes the employer bulletin 6 times a year, giving employers and agents the latest information on topics and issues that may affect them. The employer bulletin is only available online. You can download and read the employer bulletin on screen or print it off. You can register for HMRC’s employer email alert service to receive emails from HMRC which tell you when the latest issue is available. For further information and to download the...
What you and businesses can and cannot do during the outbreak and what happens if you break these new laws. There are four main things: certain businesses are not allowed to be open people have to stay local and not be indoors with anyone who is not a member of their household unless they have a good reason rules have been made about keeping people 2 metres apart when they do go out (known as...
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, has up to £800,000 from the Plastics Research and Innovation Fund, to invest in business projects that seek to better understand the behaviour of customers and users and use that understanding to create innovative design concepts. Projects must develop design concepts that do not rely on single-use plastic using customer and user research. They could look at redesign of existing goods, services or business models or design...
The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) will close on 31 October 2020 and the UK Government has updated their guidance. What you need to do from July: start your flexible furloughing of employees from 1 July onwards, you can decide the hours and shift patterns they work to suit the needs of your business – you’ll pay their wages for the time they’re in work and can apply for a job retention scheme grant to...
Retailers will be able to resume trading if they can take all reasonable measures to comply with the physical distancing duty in Welsh law to reduce the spread of coronavirus and protect shop workers and shoppers. The changes are part of a comprehensive package of measures being introduced step by step every Monday over the next three weeks. They follow the fourth statutory review of the coronavirus regulations by Welsh Ministers, using the latest scientific...