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The Government has announced the National Living Wage (NLW) and National Minimum Wage (NMW) rates which will come into force from April 2021. It accepted in full recommendations made by the Low Pay Commission at the end of October. The National Living Wage will increase by 2.2 per cent from £8.72 to £8.91 and will … Read more
The Chancellor Rishi Sunak extended the Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) in November, which will have a major effect on both employers and payroll departments. In this article we look at the initial guidance and note that there will be further review for guidance from February 2021 onwards. CJRS will now remain open until 31 March … Read more
HMRC releases a monthly October Employer Bulletin which has become essential reading for all payrollers as it gives a detailed update on all current and future guidance, which is especially important during this pandemic time, not least because things are moving and changing quickly. If you are a client of ours, of course, you don’t … Read more
Just as we were expecting that the Job Support Scheme would start on 1st November, replacing the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (usually known as the furlough scheme), it has now been announced that The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme has been extended for a month, with employees receiving 80% of their current salary for hours not … Read more
Every business is looking at how it can reduce overheads and increase efficiency, non more so than now due to the recession caused by the Covis-19 Pandemic. So, is outsourcing your payroll the right move right now? In our view, few areas of a business are quite as ripe for outsourcing as payroll So how … Read more
October Furlough Changes From 1st October, the amount employers can claim for furlough drops to 60%, up to a cap of £1875.00 per month, with the employer having to make up 20% of gross pay, so employees still receive 80% of their pay. This will be the final month of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. … Read more
HMRC has blocked thousands of applications for the government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) due to fears that they were fraudulent. More than 30,000 CJRS applications have been rejected by HMRC, according to reports. At the end of June, 1,526 CJRS claims were rejected because the companies applying had ceased trading. An additional 23,899 applications … Read more
Research by the Resolution Foundation into auto-enrolment enforcement by has revealed that over 800,000 workers (c.5% of all employees) who are eligible to receive a workplace pension have either not been enrolled at all by their employer, or are receiving contributions that are less than the minimum required level. It seems that many of these … Read more
Nationally, it has been reported that over 9 million people have been supported by the furloughing scheme at a cost to the government of over £30 billion and rising. That is the national picture. Here at JLP, where all of our clients are small businesses employing less than 50 people, we have seen a different … Read more
From 1st July 2020 businesses will have the flexibility to bring furloughed employees back to work part-time, with the government still paying 80% of wages for any of their normal hours they do not work up until the end of August. Employers can decide the hours and shift patterns that employees work. This means that … Read more