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The latest guidance from BEIS, published 13 May, confirms how holiday entitlement and holiday pay is to work during the Coronavirus pandemic. The Guidance Note is informative in some areas but makes a number of quite odd suggestions in others. We must remember that it is simply guidance. An employee’s statutory rights for holiday leave…

We now have a further updated Guidance Note from HMRC. On 30 April 2020, the Government produced some new guidance on the Furlough Scheme. Contrary to some of the previous guidance updates, these are broadly helpful in clarifying some areas of uncertainty.

We have written a short report on the changes, which is available from

This morning we have had the first report from HMRC on the operation of the Furlough Scheme. It is in the form of a tweet. It reports that 185,000 claims have been submitted covering 1,300,000 employees. So a lot of employees are benefitting from the Scheme. A lot of employers are, also doubtless, making…

In line with its recently discovered penchant for updating the Furlough Scheme, the most recent Government guidance (the 4th) was published on Friday, 17 April, and in some ways manages the quite tricky task of publishing clarifications that make the Furlough Scheme less clear than it was before in some respects. An update on the

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Only days after the last UK Government update, we now have a further set of updates in relation to the Guidance Note on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, and to the Self Employment Income Support Scheme, both of which we have written about previously. Crucially we also now have a Treasury Direction which provides the

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The UK Government’s latest update for the Furlough Scheme follows hot on the heels of its previous guidance. The updated guidance, published on 9 April, just ahead of the Easter weekend, does clarify some areas of operation but leaves other questions unanswered. This update explains what has changed.
Read the full update on mayerbrown.com
Since our recent alert on the UK Government’s updates to Furlough Guidance, we have noted that clarifications to certain points have been supplemented through social media and other unusual sources. This short update provides clarification on questions regarding TUPE transfers, holiday and when the furlough portal is due to be operational. Read the full

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On 4th April 2020 the UK Government provided an update to its previous guidance on the Furlough Scheme. This update builds on our previous article reviewing the original guidance on the Scheme, identifies key areas that have now shifted, and considers some of the issues which have not been addressed.

Read the full update on

At long last, we have further details on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. This has come out of GOV.UK overnight and provides some much welcomed detail. This update looks at the further information that has been provided and some potentially tricky areas for employers who are looking at using the Scheme. To read the full…