Coronavirus: resource round-up
See below for our full range of current coronavirus (COVID-19) resources for HR, including information on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. We are continually updating and expanding our guidance - and indicate in the list where a resource is new.
Browse the list or use the "Go to section" drop-down (above) to explore. See all our coronavirus model documents.
Lifting the lockdown
- Lifting the lockdown: Towards permanent homeworking
- Lifting the coronavirus lockdown: Letter notifying employees that they should continue to work from home
- Lifting the coronavirus lockdown: Letter recalling an employee from furlough
- Ten issues for HR to consider when the coronavirus lockdown ends
- Coronavirus and workplace closures: Letter inviting an employee to a meeting to discuss a change of place of work (New)
- Coronavirus and workplace closures: Letter to an employee confirming a change of place of work (New)
- Coronavirus and workplace closures: Letter inviting an employee to a meeting to discuss a permanent homeworking arrangement (New)
- Coronavirus and workplace closures: Letter to an employee confirming a permanent homeworking arrangement (New)
Returning to the workplace
- Communication during the coronavirus pandemic (New)
- Coronavirus and your workforce webinar: Starting the return-to-work journey - considerations and challenges
- Return to work: Employers' questions answered
- Returning to work: Eight challenges identified by HR professionals
- Lifting the coronavirus lockdown: Welcome letter to workers in advance of their return to work
- Lifting the coronavirus lockdown: Letter seeking an employee's agreement to change their start and finish times
- Lifting the coronavirus lockdown: Letter to an employee who refuses, or is reluctant, to return to work
- How to manage returning to work as the coronavirus lockdown is lifted
- What should the employer do if an employee is reluctant to return to work as the coronavirus lockdown is lifted?
- Which employees are allowed to travel to work during the period of "lockdown" to control the coronavirus outbreak?
- Can an employer require employees to be tested for coronavirus (COVID-19)?
- Can an employer inform its staff if a colleague has tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19)?
- Non-essential retailers can reopen in June (News)
Safe working
- Lifting the coronavirus lockdown: Letter to move a clinically extremely vulnerable employee to alternative work (New)
- Lifting the coronavirus lockdown: Letter setting out adjustments for a return to work for a clinically extremely vulnerable employee (New)
- Lifting the coronavirus lockdown: Letter to arrange a discussion about a return to work for a clinically extremely vulnerable employee (New)
- What are the implications of the test and trace service for employers?
- Coronavirus and your workforce podcast: Meeting health and safety duties as lockdown is lifted
- Government publishes guide on safety for businesses due to re-open (News)
- General health and safety duties: Employers' health and safety duties and coronavirus (COVID-19) (New)
- Hazard identification and risk management: Risk assessment and coronavirus (COVID-19) (New)
- Lifting the coronavirus lockdown: Questionnaire for visitors to the employer's premises
- Lifting the coronavirus lockdown: COVID-19 workplace risk assessment
- Lifting the coronavirus lockdown: Policy on safe working during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Lifting the coronavirus lockdown: Letter to arrange a discussion with a pregnant employee about their return to work
- Lifting the coronavirus lockdown: Letter setting out adjustments for a pregnant employee who is returning to work
- Lifting the coronavirus lockdown: Letter to move a pregnant employee to suitable alternative work
- Lifting the coronavirus lockdown: Letter suspending a pregnant employee on health and safety grounds
- Lifting the coronavirus lockdown: Letter to arrange a discussion with a clinically vulnerable employee about a return to work
- Lifting the coronavirus lockdown: Letter setting out adjustments for a clinically vulnerable employee's return to work
- Lifting the coronavirus lockdown: Letter to move a clinically vulnerable employee to alternative work
- What should an employer do if an employee does not comply with social distancing or hygiene measures at work?
- What process should employers follow to control coronavirus risks when returning to work from the lockdown?
- Is it 'associative discrimination' to ask staff living with shielded persons to return to work?
- Coronavirus and workplace health and safety
- Wait over for detailed workplace guidance (News)
- Employers should publish COVID-19 risk assessments (News)
- Coronavirus: Physical fitness and the return to work
- Navigating health and safety obligations during the coronavirus pandemic
Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (furlough leave)
- What is the Job Retention Bonus? (New)
- How is the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme changing between 1 July 2020 and 31 October 2020?
- Managing your workforce out of lockdown webinar: Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme - impending changes and tricky issues
- Fraudulent claims and the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
- What is the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme?
- How to furlough employees under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
- HR and the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: A practical guide
- Coronavirus furlough scheme - the discrepancies causing concern for HR
- Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and variation of contract
- Coronavirus and your workforce webinar: Tricky issues for employers
- Coronavirus and your workforce webinar: Week 7 of lockdown - your compliance questions answered
- The evolution of the furlough scheme: Employers' next steps
- Retail, hotel and food services are biggest furlough scheme users (News)
- Employees on maternity leave can still access furlough after deadline (News)
- Almost 1,900 reports of furlough fraud to HMRC (News)
- Furlough extended to October and part-time working allowed (News)
- More than 9 million furlough claims made (News)
- Employers to receive £1k bonus for bringing staff back from furlough (News) (New)
Flexible furlough
- What is flexible furlough? (New)
- How does an employer make use of flexible furloughing to allow furloughed employees to work part time (New)
- Do furloughed employees have to work part time from 1 July 2020? (New)
- If employees are on full furlough, rather than flexible furlough, does the three-week minimum furlough period continue to apply from 1 July 2020? (New)
- Can an employer flexibly furlough employees under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme from 1 July 2020 if they had already returned to work in June? (New)
- Is there a minimum period for which an employee must be back at work before they can be furloughed again?
- Does an employer need to obtain an employee's written agreement to be furloughed?
- Employees cannot undertake work for their employer while they are on furlough, but what constitutes work?
- How to furlough employees under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
- Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Letter seeking an employee's agreement to flexible furlough (New)
- Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Letter reminding an employee to sign and return their written agreement to flexible furlough (New)
- Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Letter confirming an employee's flexible furlough (New)
- Seven things employers need to know about flexible furlough (New)
- Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Flexible furlough arrangements (New)
- 'Horrible, complex' flexible furlough guidance unveiled (News)
- Coronavirus and your workforce podcast: Understanding flexible furlough (New)
Which employees can be furloughed
- Which employees can be furloughed under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme?
- Do employees have a right to be furloughed?
- Can an employer place an employee on furlough leave if they are off sick?
- Can an employee be furloughed if they are on maternity leave, or other family-related leave?
- Can agency workers be placed on furlough?
- Can apprentices be furloughed?
- Can an employer place an employee on furlough if they need to stay at home to look after their children?
- Can an employer furlough a new recruit who has a start date after 19 March 2020 if they accepted a job offer before that date?
- Can an employer claim under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme for an employee who was on unpaid leave before the scheme was announced?
- Can an employer rotate which employees are furloughed under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme?
- Can an employer extend a fixed-term contract that comes to an end while the employee is furloughed?
- Is there a minimum period for which an employee must be back at work before they can be furloughed again?
- Furlough: HMRC clarifies TUPE rules and warns against fraud (News)
- Furlough: updated guidance confirms TUPE and overseas citizens' eligibility (News)
- Directors' rights and responsibilities under CJRS (News)
- Furlough scheme eligibility date changed to 19 March (News)
Pay during furlough
- Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
- Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and pay
- Managing your workforce out of lockdown webinar: Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme - impending changes and tricky issues
- Companies will not pay 20% of furlough costs until October (News)
- How does an employer make a claim under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme?
- Which wage costs are covered under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme?
- Do employers have to pay national insurance contributions for furloughed employees?
- Do employers have to pay pension contributions for furloughed employees?
- Can an employer pay a furloughed employee 80% of their wages if this is below the national minimum wage rate?
- Does an employer that uses the Coronavirus Job Retention scheme to pay 80% of furloughed employees' wages have to make up the difference so they are paid in full?
- How do you calculate the wages of an employee with irregular hours for the purpose of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme?
- How should an employer calculate pay for an employee who is furloughed on return from maternity leave or other family-related leave?
- How should an employer calculate statutory maternity pay (SMP) for an employee who is on furlough leave or in receipt of sick pay during the SMP calculation period?
- Furlough: parental pay to be calculated on usual earnings (News)
- Calculating notice pay for employees on furlough
Letters to employees
- Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Letter to keep in touch with a furloughed employee
- Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Letter informing an employee put at risk of redundancy that their job is safe for now
- Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Letter withdrawing a redundancy notice
- Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Letter seeking an employee's agreement to be furloughed
- Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Letter reminding an employee to sign and return their written agreement to be furloughed
- Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Letter confirming an employee's furlough
- Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Letter turning down an employee's request to be furloughed
- Letter to an employee with a serious underlying health condition who has been advised to shield against coronavirus
- Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Letter extending an employee's furlough
- Lifting the coronavirus lockdown: Letter recalling an employee from furlough
- Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Letter offering to extend a furloughed employee's fixed-term contract
- Coronavirus and annual leave: Letter responding to an employee's request to take holiday during furlough
Redundancy and furlough leave
- How to consult collectively with a remote workforce during the coronavirus pandemic
- Does an employee who is given notice of redundancy while on furlough have the right to paid time to look for work?
- Is an employee entitled to their normal full pay during the notice period if they are made redundant while on furlough?
- How to carry out redundancies when employees have been furloughed
- Managing your workforce out of lockdown webinar: Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme - impending changes and tricky issues
- Warnings issued over using furlough pay to calculate redundancy pay outs (News)
- Can an employee claim a statutory redundancy payment if they have been furloughed for four or more weeks?
- Can an employer withdraw notice of redundancy that was given before the announcement of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme?
- Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Letter withdrawing a redundancy notice
- Can employers bring back employees who were made redundant before the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme was announced, and make a claim for them under the scheme?
- Does placing employees on furlough prevent the employer from making them redundant?
Annual leave during furlough
- Coronavirus and annual leave: Letter requiring a furloughed employee to take holiday
- Coronavirus and annual leave: Letter responding to an employee's request to take holiday during furlough
- Can an employee take annual leave while on furlough?
- Annual leave and furlough under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (Commentary)
- How should employers deal with bank holidays that fall within a period of furlough leave?
- Does annual leave accrue during a period of lay-off or furlough?
- BEIS clarifies furlough holiday rules for staff and temps (News)
Pension contributions under furlough
- Furlough: What counts as pensionable salary?
- Do employers have to pay pension contributions for furloughed employees?
- Pensions auto-enrolment and coronavirus (COVID-19)
- Informing and consulting on pension scheme changes: Penalties
- Workplace pensions
Work during furlough
- Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: What amounts to work?
- Furlough extended to October and part-time working allowed (News)
- Coronavirus and your workforce podcast: When is a furloughed employee "working"?
- Employees cannot undertake work for their employer while they are on furlough, but what constitutes work?
- Can a furloughed employee start working for another organisation?
- If an employee has more than one job, can they be furloughed in one and continue to work in the other?
- Rules for furloughed directors "muddled and contradictory (News)
- Directors' rights and responsibilities under CJRS (News)
Preparing for the end of furlough
- How to consult collectively with a remote workforce during the coronavirus pandemic (New)
- Eight days left to register employees for furlough (News)
- When will the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme close?
- 8.4 million furloughed as Sunak prepares to wind down scheme (News)
- Lifting the coronavirus lockdown: Letter recalling an employee from furlough
- Redundancy consultation: Preparations for the end of the coronavirus furlough scheme
- Coronavirus: Collective redundancy consultation and the special circumstances defence
See other resources on redundancy
Workforce changes
Redundancy
- Managing your workforce out of lockdown webinar: Collective redundancy consultation - the process and pitfalls
- Coronavirus and your workforce podcast: Consulting collectively with a remote workforce
- How to consult collectively with a remote workforce during the coronavirus pandemic
- Coronavirus and your workforce webinar: Week 7 of lockdown - your compliance questions answered
- Coronavirus: Collective redundancy consultation and the special circumstances defence
- Collective redundancy consultation: Coronavirus and the special circumstances defence
- How to consider alternatives to redundancy during the coronavirus crisis
- Can an employee claim a statutory redundancy payment if they have been furloughed for four or more weeks?
Lay-offs and short-time working
- Letter inviting employees to a meeting to set out lay-off plans (in exercise of a contractual right to lay off)
- Letter imposing a lay-off (in exercise of a contractual right to lay off)
- Letter inviting an employee to a meeting to discuss lay-off proposal (no contractual right to lay off - express consent necessary)
- Letter seeking an employee's agreement to a lay-off (no contractual right to lay off - express consent necessary)
- Letter informing an employee who has been laid off that they can return to normal working
- Letter inviting employees to a meeting to set out short-time working plans (in exercise of a contractual right to place on short-time working)
- Letter imposing short-time working (in exercise of a contractual right to place on short-time working)
- Letter inviting an employee to a meeting to discuss short-time working proposal (no contractual right to place on short-time working - express consent necessary)
- Letter seeking an employee's agreement to short-time working (no contractual right to place on short time working - express consent necessary)
- Letter informing an employee who has been placed on short-time working that they can return to normal working
- Lay-off and short-time working
- What is the difference between a lay-off and a redundancy?
- Contract clause on lay off and short-time working
Contract changes
- Liveflo: Change an employee's terms and conditions
- Variation of contracts
- During the coronavirus outbreak, can an employer require its employees to take on different roles to cover absence?
- Letter informing an employee of a pay freeze
- Letter seeking agreement to reduce an employee's pay to avoid redundancies
- Temporary increased working hours policy
- Temporary reduced working hours policy
Job offers
- Can an employer that is affected by the coronavirus crisis postpone a new recruit's start date or withdraw a job offer?
- Letter withdrawing a new recruit's job offer because of the coronavirus outbreak
- Letter postponing a new recruit's start date because of the coronavirus outbreak
- Can an employer furlough a new recruit who has a start date after 19 March 2020 if they accepted a job offer before that date?
Probationary periods
- Can an employer terminate the contract of an employee in their probationary period if it is facing financial difficulty because of the coronavirus crisis?
- Letter extending an employee's probationary period because of the coronavirus outbreak
Hours of work
- Hours of work: Drivers' hours rules and coronavirus (COVID-19)
- Rest breaks and rest periods: Drivers' hours rules and coronavirus (COVID-19)
Homeworking
- Coronavirus and workplace closures: Letter inviting an employee to a meeting to discuss a permanent homeworking arrangement (New)
- Coronavirus and workplace closures: Letter to an employee confirming a permanent homeworking arrangement (New)
- Giving feedback to remote workers (New)
- Communication during the coronavirus pandemic (New)
- Lifting the lockdown: Towards permanent homeworking
- Managing homeworkers during the coronavirus pandemic
- Lifting the coronavirus lockdown: Letter notifying employees that they should continue to work from home
- Temporary homeworking policy during the coronavirus outbreak
- Form to record a health and safety discussion with a homeworker during the coronavirus outbreak
- Working from home: How HR can deal with the daily dilemmas
- Letter outlining flexibility for employees with caring responsibilities who are working from home during the coronavirus outbreak
- Working from home: Do staff have suitable equipment?
- Acas working from home guidance: be 'practical, flexible and sensitive' (News)
- We're living in capsules now, but let's take the positives (Commentary)
- Half of workers expect remote working reversal after Covid-19 (News)
- Homeworking policy
- Working from home proves real bonus for City employees (News)
Absence from work
Attendance at work
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): Potential absence and attendance scenarios and how to deal with them
- What obligations does an employer have to an employee who lives with someone who is at very high risk of serious illness from coronavirus?
- Which employees are allowed to travel to work during the period of "lockdown" to control the coronavirus outbreak?
- During a flu pandemic or an infectious disease outbreak such as coronavirus, can an employer insist that someone with flu symptoms comes to work?
- What should the employer do if an employee is reluctant to return to work as the coronavirus lockdown is lifted?
- Can an employer instruct an employee who may be at risk of having contracted coronavirus not to come to work?
- Should a policy triggering disciplinary action after a certain amount of absence be suspended in relation to employees with coronavirus symptoms during the outbreak?
Annual leave
- How should an employer deal with annual leave requests where the employee would be required to quarantine after travelling abroad?
- Line manager briefing on annual leave
- Coronavirus and your workforce podcast: Managing annual leave
- When can annual leave be carried over due to the coronavirus crisis?
- Can an employer require employees to use their annual leave during the coronavirus outbreak?
- Coronavirus and annual leave: Letter outlining your organisation's approach to holiday for employees working from home
- Coronavirus and annual leave: Letter outlining your organisation's approach to holiday for employees who are attending work
- Coronavirus and annual leave: Letter responding to an employee's request to take holiday during furlough
- Workers will be able to carry over annual leave for two years (News)
- Coronavirus and carrying forward leave
- Can unused statutory annual holiday be carried forward to the next holiday year?
- Can an employee cancel a period of annual leave if they are unable to go on holiday due to the coronavirus outbreak?
- Can an employer require employees to use their annual leave during the coronavirus outbreak?
- Letter responding to an employee who has requested to cancel or rearrange their holiday
- Form for an employee to request to carry over holiday
- Letter declining holiday request
Emergency volunteering leave
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) and emergency volunteering leave
- Emergency Volunteer Leave: What HR needs to know
- Emergency volunteering leave policy during the coronavirus outbreak
- Letter confirming that a worker is taking emergency volunteering leave during the coronavirus outbreak
- Who is entitled to take emergency volunteering leave during the coronavirus outbreak?
- How much emergency volunteering leave can a worker take during the coronavirus outbreak?
- What are the notice and evidence requirements for a worker to take emergency volunteering leave during the coronavirus outbreak?
- Do employers have to pay workers who are on emergency volunteering leave during the coronavirus outbreak?
Time off
Sick pay
- What are the implications of the test and trace service for employers?
- Statutory sick pay rebate scheme launched (News)
- If an employee is advised to self-isolate to avoid the risk of spreading coronavirus, are they entitled to sick pay?
- Statutory sick pay and coronavirus (COVID-19)
- Recovery of statutory sick pay and coronavirus (COVID-19)
- Future developments on statutory sick pay and coronavirus (COVID-19)
- What medical evidence can an employer request from employees who are absent with coronavirus symptoms, when government advice is not to attend a GP?
- How should an employer calculate statutory maternity pay (SMP) for an employee who is on furlough leave or in receipt of sick pay during the SMP calculation period?
Pay
School closures
- How should employers respond if employees are affected by school closures to prevent the spread of coronavirus?
- Can an employer place an employee on furlough if they need to stay at home to look after their children?
Wellbeing, mental health and health and safety
Wellbeing
- Two-thirds of employers have introduced new wellbeing benefits
- Coronavirus: Ensuring the wellbeing of those still at work
- Coronavirus: How HR can help after the death of an employee
- Coronavirus: How HR is promoting health and wellbeing
Mental health
- Coronavirus and your workforce webinar: Supporting employees' mental health
- Coronavirus and your workforce podcast: How HR is dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic
- Mental health support during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic
- Lifting the coronavirus lockdown: Letter highlighting how employees continuing homeworking can look after their mental health
- Lifting the coronavirus lockdown: Letter highlighting how employees attending work can look after their mental health
- Letter to employees highlighting the role of mental health first-aiders within the organisation
- Neurodiversity: The impact of lockdown and social isolation
Health and safety
- How to identify and manage health and safety risks
- Coronavirus and workplace health and safety
- Employers should publish COVID-19 risk assessments (News)
- Lifting the coronavirus lockdown: Letter to arrange a discussion with a pregnant employee about their return to work
- Lifting the coronavirus lockdown: Letter setting out adjustments for a pregnant employee who is returning to work
- Lifting the coronavirus lockdown: Letter to move a pregnant employee to suitable alternative work
- Lifting the coronavirus lockdown: Letter suspending a pregnant employee on health and safety grounds
- Lifting the coronavirus lockdown: Letter to arrange a discussion with a clinically vulnerable employee about a return to work
- Lifting the coronavirus lockdown: Letter setting out adjustments for a clinically vulnerable employee's return to work
- Lifting the coronavirus lockdown: Letter to move a clinically vulnerable employee to alternative work
- Form to record a health and safety discussion with a homeworker during the coronavirus outbreak
- Do employers have a duty to take special measures to protect those employees who are most at risk if they are exposed to coronavirus?
- Letter to an employee with a serious underlying health condition who has been advised to shield against coronavirus
- What obligations does an employer have to pregnant employees during the coronavirus crisis?
- Pregnancy and maternity discrimination: Pregnancy and maternity during coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak
- Employers' health and safety duties and coronavirus (COVID-19) (including civil liability risk)
- Risk assessment and coronavirus (COVID-19)
- Policy on supporting staff experiencing domestic violence
- Letter outlining flexibility for employees with caring responsibilities who are working from home during the coronavirus outbreak
- Is there any duty on employers to close their workplace if a risk of contact with coronavirus is identified?
- Letter providing guidance for staff on control of infectious diseases in the workplace
- Infectious diseases in the workplace policy
Reservists
- Liveflo: Managing a reservist's mobilisation
- How to respond when members of the reserve forces are called out for military service
- Members of the volunteer reserve forces
- Policy on employing reservists
See other FAQs on reserve forces
Contingency planning
- Flu pandemic contingency plan
- If an employer has a high proportion of employees self-isolating to avoid the spread of coronavirus, can it require other employees to work extra hours to cover the work?
Key workers
- Leave to remain extended to families of deceased care workers (News)
- Boris Johnson scraps Immigration Health Surcharge in major u-turn (News)
- List of key workers prioritised for educational provision during coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic
Strategic HR
HR roles during the outbreak
- Crisis then calm: How coronavirus is affecting the job of HR
- People analytics and HR lead the way through the coronavirus pandemic
- Coronavirus and your workforce podcast: How HR is dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic
Workforce planning
- Workforce planning during coronavirus: Strategies for planning in flexibility
- Workforce planning in the time of coronavirus (Workforce planning guide)
- Does the latest Covid-19 immigration policy generate more questions?
- Coronavirus and your workforce podcast: Complying with UK immigration requirements during COVID-19
- Immigration permission expiry and coronavirus (COVID-19)
Pay awards
- Gender pay gap reporting and the impact of coronavirus (COVID-19)
- Pay trends April 2020: First signs of coronavirus affecting pay awards
- Letter awarding staff a bonus during the coronavirus outbreak
Recruitment
- Letter notifying staff of a recruitment freeze because of the coronavirus outbreak
- Letter informing staff of a recruitment drive because of the coronavirus outbreak
- Police sector: Returning to duty during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic
- Employer branding: attracting talent during the lockdown
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) and the rise of remote recruitment
- UK employment at all-time high before lockdown (News)
- Why graduate recruitment doesn't need to be on lockdown
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): Recruitment challenges during the pandemic
- Brexit: Letter reminding EEA nationals to apply for settled or pre-settled status
- Home Office warns of delay in EU settlement scheme decisions (News)
- Soon-to-expire visas: Do new Home Office allowances provide enough relief?
- Frontline health workers granted visa extension (News)
- Graduate and apprentice hiring hit by coronavirus uncertainty (News)
- Supermarkets create 30,000 jobs to meet surging demand (News)
See other model letters on recruiment during coronavirus
Employee engagement
- Communication during the coronavirus pandemic (New)
- Coronavirus and your workforce podcast: Engaging with employees
- Coronavirus: Employee engagement check-in survey
- Coronavirus and your workforce webinar: Employee engagement and employer responsibilities
- Keeping a global workforce engaged in times of crisis
- Five ways to keep employees engaged during the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): Recruitment challenges during the pandemic
Support for employees
- Non-furloughed: What about the employees left behind?
- Policy setting out an employee assistance programme
- Coronavirus: Watchdog warns against DB to DC pension transfers (News)
Managing bereavement
- Coronavirus and your workforce podcast: Supporting employees who have suffered a bereavement
- Coronavirus: How HR can help after the death of an employee
- Letter announcing an employee's death to colleagues
- How to deal with the death of an employee during the coronavirus pandemic
- Policy on dealing with a worker's death
- How to support a bereaved employee
- Policy on supporting bereaved employees
- Compassionate leave policy
Managing employees
- Communication during the coronavirus pandemic (New)
- Global mobility will return to 'business as usual' for many employers
- Grievance procedures during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic
- Disciplinary procedures during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic
- Misconduct: Remote disciplinary procedures (New)
- Coronavirus and your workforce podcast: Managing disciplinary, grievance and performance processes remotely
- Coronavirus lockdown: How can HR manage ongoing disciplinary issues?
- Acas publishes coronavirus disciplinary and grievance guidance (News)
- Investigations and Covid-19: employers need a pandemic-proof toolkit
HR pulse survey reports
Fifth pulse survey
- HR and coronavirus survey: Recovery or redundancy? (New)
- Benchmarking: Coronavirus and HR - Fifth XpertHR pulse survey (New)
- Coronavirus: Promoting employee engagement as the lockdown is lifted (New)
Fourth pulse survey
- HR and coronavirus survey: The return to work begins
- Benchmarking: Coronavirus and HR - Fourth XpertHR pulse survey
- Returning to work: Eight challenges identified by HR professionals
Third pulse survey
- HR and coronavirus survey: six weeks into lockdown
- Benchmarking: Coronavirus and HR - Third XpertHR pulse survey
- Going beyond "thank you" to recognise staff during the coronavirus pandemic
- Coronavirus and your workforce podcast: How HR is dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic
Second pulse survey
- HR and coronavirus survey: Four weeks into lockdown
- Benchmarking: Coronavirus and HR - Second XpertHR pulse survey
- Coronavirus: How HR is promoting health and wellbeing
First pulse survey
- Coronavirus: HR's initial response survey April 2020
- Benchmarking: Coronavirus and HR - HR's initial response
- How HR practitioners are coping in the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic
Commentary and news
- Do more to protect those not covered by financial support, say MPs (News)
- ICO guidance on workplace coronavirus testing published (News)
- Payroll departments under pressure but 'unsung heroes of the hour' (News)
- Coronavirus: how Public Health England is keeping staff safe (News)
- 'Emergency brake' on minimum wage rises may be needed
- Self-employed eligible for 80% of monthly pay
- Coronavirus crisis accelerates digitisation of employment tribunals
Regulatory changes
- Modern slavery and human trafficking statements: Suspension of penalty for late publication
- Coronavirus: Home Office speeds up right to work checks (News)
- Temporary changes to the rules on right to work checks
- Coronavirus: Right to work in the UK model documents updated
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) and suspension of gender pay gap reporting enforcement
- Gender pay gap reporting enforcement suspended this year (News)
- Off-payroll working in the private sector
- Home Office guidance on sponsors' duties in relation to employee absence
Legal timetable
- Right to statutory sick pay when self-isolating due to contact with coronavirus introduced
- Recovery of statutory sick pay for coronavirus cases introduced
- Rules on calculating normal weekly earnings for family-related benefits for those who are furloughed introduced
- Emergency volunteering leave introduced
- Entitlement to statutory sick pay for those who are "shielding" introduced
- Right to carry over statutory annual leave for two years introduced
- Mandatory business closures due to coronavirus take effect
- Coronavirus Act comes into force
- Temporary relaxation of EU rules on drivers' hours introduced
International - emergency measures
EU
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Bulgaria
Canada
Chile
China
Czech Republic
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Guernsey
Hong Kong
Hungary
India
Indonesia
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Jersey
Luxembourg
Mexico
Netherlands
Nigeria
Norway
Philippines
Poland
Puerto Rico
Romania
South Africa
Spain
Turkey
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
Key topics
Coronavirus
Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme/Furlough leave
Annual leave and holiday pay
Collective redundancies - information and consultation
End of employment
Health and safety
Homeworking/teleworking
Insolvency
Job offers
Lay-offs and short-time working
Mental health
Notice periods
Payments on termination
Redundancy
Sickness absence and sick pay
Time off for dependants
Work organisation and working patterns
Zero hours and casual contracts
