In response to the survey’s findings, the CIPD has offered a list of recommendations for employers to promote healthy working practices. The list includes:
• Assessing workloads, and ensuring that staff are not under excess pressure • Ensuring that managers are sufficiently trained in conducting supportive and sensitive discussions on wellbeing. They also need to understand how important regular contact is for staff who are working remotely • Highlighting benefits such as counselling helplines, that may already be available to employees • Allowing workers to have more control over how, when and where they work
The report can be accessed and read in its entirety here.
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The CIPP’s future of the Self -Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) factsheet is now available 10 June 2020
The CIPP’s Policy and Research team has created a new factsheet to update payroll professionals on recent announcements relating to the future of the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS).
On 29 May 2020, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced that a second and final grant would be made available to further support the self-employed, including members of partnerships, through the outbreak of coronavirus.
The factsheet provides an overview of the first grant offered under the scheme, and revisits the eligibility criteria, as this remains the same for both the first and second grant. The factsheet discusses what we know so far about the second SEISS grant, but further guidance on how it will operate is due to be published on 12 June 2020.
Also of interest is the role of agents in relation to the SEISS, and the factsheet provides key information in this area.
The factsheet relating to the Self-Employment Support Scheme is just the latest in a range of factsheets that the CIPP’s Policy and Research team has created in order to provide helpful guidance to payroll professionals about crucial areas of payroll. The idea is that the factsheets can be printed off and easily digested in a small amount of time to fit around the increasingly busy lives of payrollers.
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Introduction of VAT domestic reverse charge for construction services delayed 10 June 2020 HMRC has confirmed that the planned introduction of the VAT domestic reverse charge for construction services has been delayed further from 1 October 2020 to 1 March 2021, due to the impact that coronavirus has had on the construction sector. The change was initially due to be implemented from 1 October 2019 but was deferred for a period of 12 months, as industry bodies expressed their concerns around the lack of preparation and therefore, the potential negative impact on businesses. There has also been an amendment to original legislation, laid in April 2019, which means that it is mandatory for businesses who are excluded from the reverse charge because they are end users or intermediary suppliers to inform their sub-contractors in writing of this fact. The rationale behind this is to ensure that both parties are aware whether the supply is excluded from the reverse charge.
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