“Business Wales helped me start my own business during difficult times, the support is amazing.” Starting a new business can be daunting, but with our Business Wales team's in-depth start-up support, Melanie Freeman found the confidence to begin building her floristry business in Swansea. To gain a good understanding of self-employment, Melanie was given one-to-one support by her advisor, informing her on all aspects of running a business. To fund the initial set-up of the...
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“Thanks to the support from Business Wales, MPE Ltd have had the confidence to invest in a new stainless steel processing facility.” Stainless-Steel processing and finishing Company MPE Ltd were eager to expand its services and open a new processing facility in South Wales. To secure the new facility, Colin Owen, the company director, discussed an Innovation Voucher with his Business Wales advisor, which would be a viable funding option to support the new project...
Join a free webinar, hosted by the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), to find out more about how to make your workplace COVID-19 secure. The webinars cover a range of different types of workplace settings which are allowed to be open. Many businesses operate more than one type of workplace, such as an office, factory and fleet of vehicles. You may need to use more than one of the guides/webinars as you...
Welsh Government have announced details of the next phase of the Economic Resilience Fund. The eligibility checker for new applications will hopefully be open by the middle of June 2020, allowing companies’ time to prepare their applications and Welsh Government expects to open the fund for full applications later in the month. This will enable access to the remaining £100 million of the £300 million already approved and allocated to support micro businesses, small and...
The UK Government want to hear organisations' views on the roles that are being filled by migrant workers, the salaries they are paid and implications of potential changes. In March 2020, the UK Government commissioned the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) to compile a UK shortage occupation list (SOL), which will primarily focus on occupations at RQF Level 3-5 (medium skill). This is to be reported in September 2020. The COVID-19 outbreak has placed businesses in...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have published the following guidance, which your business may find useful: RIDDOR reporting of COVID-19 working from home driver welfare facilities regulation of chemicals during the outbreak the manufacture and supply of hand sanitisers For all the latest information and advice please visit the HSE website. Please visit the Business Wales Coronavirus advice for businesses pages for information for your business on dealing with the Coronavirus outbreak.
A new online service ‘The Coronavirus Statutory Sick Pay Rebate Scheme’ will launch 26 May 2020 for small and medium sized employers to recover Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) payments they have made to current or former employees. Employers can claim for periods of sickness starting on or after: 13 March 2020 - if employees had coronavirus or the symptoms or is self-isolating because someone they live with has symptoms 16 April 2020 - if employees...
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has published guidance covering how employers should handle data if they decide to test employees for Covid-19. The guidance includes: Which lawful basis can I use for testing employees? How can I show that our approach to testing is compliant with data protection law? Can I keep lists of employees who either have symptoms or have been tested as positive? Although similar, there are variations in approach taken by the...