The CIPP’s Policy and Research team has created a new webcast to update payroll professionals on recent announcements relating to the future of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) and the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS). The CJRS is due to change from July 2020, and employers will have the option to bring employees back to work on a part-time basis whilst still claiming through the grant for hours not worked. There will be a tapered approach to the level of government funding under the scheme, until it finally closes at the end of October 2020. Further guidance is due to be published on 12 June 2020 but the webcast provides detail surrounding what we know to be true at the point of broadcast (5 June 2020).
Rishi Sunak also announced that there will be a second and final grant available under the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) and the webcast also discusses this.
In order to ensure you are as up to date as possible with future developments relating to the CJRS and the SEISS, don’t delay and listen to the CIPP’s webcast today.
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Research suggests that work is negatively impacting employee wellbeing – and the COVID-19 crisis is exacerbating this 8 June 2020 The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has warned that, even prior to the outbreak of coronavirus, work was having a negative impact on employee health. Its latest research has highlighted that the COVID-19 crisis will only serve to heighten the issue. The CIPD’s Good Work Index report, which assesses the major elements that impact job quality over the long-term, shows that just as the COVID-19 crisis was unfolding in the UK, work was already having a negative impact on employee wellbeing. Th elements that are measured within the report are:
Pay and benefits
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Contracts
Work-life balance
Job design
Relationships at work
Employee voice
Health and wellbeing
Prior to the COVID-19 crisis, workers were already saying that, when working, they always or frequently felt:
Exhausted (22%)
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Under excessive pressure (21%)
Miserable (11%)
A third of respondents reported that their workload in a standard week was too high, with a quarter confirming that they find relaxing outside of work difficult due to the pressures of their job. Even more worryingly, 69% of individuals who reported experiencing anxiety in the last year cited work as a contributing factor. 58% of those who suffered depression stated the same.
A snapshot survey of 1,001 workers demonstrated how the COVID-19 crisis is exacerbating several of the issues previously identified, with the following key findings:
• 22 per cent said it was probable that they would lose their job in the next year • 43 per cent of those with a mental health condition say that the outbreak of coronavirus has contributed to, or worsened, their condition • 29 per cent of those with anxiety say the pandemic has contributed to, or worsened, their condition
The Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals
Payroll: need to know
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