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With the National Minimum Wage (NMW) now almost fifteen years old, and with another increase pending on 1st April 2017 HMRC have issued a list of the most elaborate excuses they've been given by employers for not paying the appropriate rates:

Coronavirus - Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) Update

Alan Kitto

Yesterday, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, has announced that the Government will reimburse small employers (those employing less than two hundred and fifty employees) any statutory sick pay they pay to employees, for the first fourteen days of sickness in the event that they are ill with coronavirus, or have to isolate under the advice of a medical practitioner. Please note that legally, someone who self-isolates of their own volition, isn’t entitled to be paid or to receive statutory sick pay.

This is expected to be a temporary measure to help insulate businesses against the impact of the virus.  Statutory sick pay is currently paid at £94.25 per week, increasing to £95.85 from 6th April 2020.  

The Chancellor estimates that will cost up to £2 billion and help up to two million businesses.

We understand that the Government may introduce some emergency legislation later this month that will make statutory sick pay payable from day one of illness (as opposed to day four and also to offer some job protection (likely a month) for anyone wanting to volunteer in the NHS, although I suspect that this would only apply to people already working in the care sector or perhaps St John Ambulance (or similar) folk, to the need for DBS checks.

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