Business conditions

New and updated

• Employers to receive £1k bonus for bringing staff back from furlough

  Date:

  8 July 2020

  Type:

  News

  Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a £1,000 "job retention bonus" for employers that bring workers back from furlough.

• Employees on payrolls drop 600,000 in two months

  Date:

  16 June 2020

  Type:

  News

  The UK could be heading into an "employment crisis", commentators have warned, as the number of employees on payrolls dropped by 612,000 in two months.

• Business confidence: private sector

  Type:

  Indicators

  Updated to include the outlook on the services industry from the CBI Quarterly Service Sector Survey, May 2020.

• Mandatory business closures due to coronavirus take effect

  Type:

  Legal timetable

  The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Business Closure) (England) Regulations 2020 set out which businesses must close to prevent spread of coronavirus (COVID-19).

• Businesses and unions react to UK 'lockdown'

  Date:

  24 March 2020

  Type:

  News

  A nationwide "lockdown" for everybody apart from key workers, announced by Boris Johnson last night, means that many employees will be working from home or unable to work at all from today.

• Productivity continues to be outpaced by wage growth

  Date:

  9 January 2020

  Type:

  News

  The Office for National Statistics has published the latest productivity figures for the UK showing that output per hour rose only 0.1% in the third quarter of last year, compared to the same period in 2018.

• Give workers more holiday to stimulate economic growth, report urges

  Date:

  12 August 2019

  Type:

  News

  Increasing minimum holiday entitlement and wages would help solve the UK's productivity crisis and stimulate economic growth, a think tank has suggested.

• Review of pay awards 2017: Private-sector pay

  Date:

  12 October 2017

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  Pay awards across the private sector are worth a median 2% in the year to the end of August 2017, but some variation exists by industry.