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- Date:
- 25 November 2020
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has pledged billions of funding in today's Spending Review to help the hundreds of thousands of people who have lost their jobs because of the pandemic back into work.
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- Date:
- 25 November 2020
The age from which workers become eligible for the national living wage will reduce to 23, the government has confirmed as it announced April 2021 increases to statutory minimum wage rates.
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- Date:
- 24 November 2020
Employees are likely to be encouraged to remain working from home until at least Easter 2021, when it is hoped that a combination of a tighter "tier" system, further testing and the roll-out of COVID-19 vaccinations will have "driven down" the coronavirus infection rate.
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- Date:
- 11 November 2020
The government has now published its official guidance for the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, which has been extended until 31 March 2021.
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- Date:
- 10 November 2020
Redundancies hit a new record high in the late summer and early autumn despite the easing of lockdown measures, new estimates from the Office for National Statistics have shown.
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- Date:
- 5 November 2020
The furlough scheme has been extended until the end of March, with the Government continuing to cover 80% of employees' wages at firms affected by coronavirus restrictions, the chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced.
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- Date:
- 4 November 2020
'Clinically extremely vulnerable' workers in England are being strongly advised by the government to avoid work outside their homes from Thursday.
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- Date:
- 28 October 2020
Organisations including the NHS, Linklaters, PwC and Zurich have committed to a programme to collectively hire 10,000 black interns, in a bid to improve ethnic diversity in business and to boost job prospects for young black people.
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- Date:
- 22 October 2020
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced an update to the Job Support Scheme (JSS), including for workers in England where tier 2 restrictions apply.
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- Date:
- 9 October 2020
Two-thirds of the wages of workers in businesses forced to close by local and national lockdowns will be covered by the Government under an expanded Job Support Scheme, chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced.
