wages
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Market Insight 8 Jan
Six key employment issues demand car dealers' focus in 2021
Brexit and COVID-19 have combined to a create a variety of challenges for car dealers attempting to manage their workforce over the past ten months.
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Market Insight 9 Nov
Half car retail employees 'facing pay cut or freeze'
Half the UK's car retail employees have been left facing a pay cut or freeze as wages “stagnate” amid changes accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, BDO’s latest Motor Salary Survey has revealed.
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Market Insight 22 Oct
Chancellor lowers Job Support Scheme criteria in updated COVID support
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak has broadened the scope of the Government’s COVID-19 fiscal support to businesses in the face of more wide-spread regional lockdowns.
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Market Insight 24 Sep
Chancellor unveils Government’s new COVID-19 job support scheme
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak has outlined details of a new COVID-19 job support scheme to replace the furlough option offered by the current Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS).
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Market Insight 17 Sep
HMRC clarifies CJRS furlough scheme ‘usual hours’ calculation
The HMRC has updated its guidance on how to perform usual hours calculations where employees come off furlough partway through a claim period.
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Supplier News 8 Jun
COVID-19 impact on car retail salaries explored by BDO survey
The impact of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic will be central to the findings of the BDO Motor Retail Salary Survey 2020, which is now encouraging participation from across the sector.
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Car Dealer News 27 May
Caffyns to detail COVID-19’s ‘significant impact’ in annual results
Caffyns has praised its employees' response to the COVID-19 crisis as “outstanding” as it revealed the mitigation measures taken by the business in a trading update published this morning (May 27).
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Car Dealer News 12 May
Government salary support scheme extended to October at 80% rate
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, has confirmed that the Government Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) will be extended to October – at its current 80% rate of salary support.
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Market Insight 12 May
Car dealers’ lockdown financial burden may grow with furlough cuts
Generous car retail businesses who promised to exceed the 80% salary funding cap of the Government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) will face an increased financial burden if support is cut to 60%.
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Market Insight 20 Apr
HMRC opens online portal for Government Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
The HMRC online portal allowing businesses to register employees for Government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CRJS) is set to feel the strain when applications flood-in following its launch today (April 20).
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Car Dealer News 6 Apr
IMDA celebrates inclusion of commission pay in Government Job Retention Scheme
The Independent Motor Dealers Association (IMDA) has celebrated the inclusion of regular commission payments in the calculation of their income in revisions to the Government’s Job Retention Scheme.
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Market Insight 23 Mar
Government will only cover wages of ‘at risk’ car dealership employees
Government will only reimburse up to 80% of the monthly wage of car dealership employees if their jobs have been put “at risk” by the current COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak.