The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme has been extended for a month with employees receiving 80% of their current salary for hours not worked and further economic support announced. The Furlough scheme - will remain open until December, with employees receiving 80% of their current salary for…

Self-employed persons are also entitled to the short-time work allowance that has been extended until December, 2021. 

The provision of the short-time work allowance have been extended until the end of 2021, from 12 to 24 months. The benefit has also been raised to up to 80% of net earnings lost.

Spain: Exemption and reduction of social security contributions for companies affected by the pandemic have been extended to January. There is a 100% exemption for businesses unable to operate completely, and a reduction for those businesses partially affected. For the latter, the rate is…

The furlough scheme ERTE has been extended, without interruption, as of October 1st until January 31st, 2021. The benefit level will remain at 70% of the regultory base and they won't decrease (previously, after 6 months the benefit level would decrease to 50% of the regulatory base).

Bonus "Disciplina y Voluntad", a one-time payment of 1,560,000 bolivars, will be provided to the population most affected by the economic crisis generated by the coronavirus.

Recent measure approved by the Judiciary will allow foreign citizens to issue their criminal record certificates virtually. In this way, it seeks to avoid crowds and possible infections of COVID-19.

The law on claiming redundancy from your employer if you have been temporarily laid off, or temporarily put on short-time work has changed during the COVID-19 emergency period.

Normally, if you are laid off or put on short-time hours, you can claim redundancy from your employer after 4…

Second delivery of the Universal Family Bonus (Bono Familia) starting this October 10. A lump-sum of $760 Peruvian Soles will be provided to vulnerable families in situations of extreme and moderate poverty that have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This second payment is expected to…

Adjusted from 13 March 2020: Workers who have been laid off will continue to be denied their right to invoke redundancy in certain circumstances until 30 November.

The Minister for Social Protection Heather Humphreys said the continued suspension was necessary in order to protect…

President Irfaan Ali this afternoon announced a series of COVID-19 relief measures including $25,000 for each household

the President said that not only would the grant be restored and increased to $15,000 but also, his Administration would be doubling the allowance for uniforms. This means that the uniform voucher allowance will be $4000 per child in the public school system.
“This, of course, will bring…

Extension of the COVID-19 cash transfer until the end of the year benefitting low-income Brazilians. The stipend, for poor and informal sector workers who have been hard hit by the coronavirus crisis, will be halved to 300 reais ($55.63) a month. The assistance, which started in April, had…

On March 27, Friday, the Spanish government approved measures to stop the firing of workers by companies in the midst of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. Minister of labor Yolanda Díaz from the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) declared that companies cannot use the health crisis as an excuse to fire…

Decree 487/2020 extended the prohibition of dismissals: (i) without justified cause; or (ii) due to lack or reduction of work and force majeure, for a period of 60 days as from its original deadline (e.g. the prohibition is now extended until July 30, 2020).

The Government extended until August 31st the sick pay so that workers with 65 years or more can remain in isolation for 30 days, as determined and communicated by the companies to the Banco de Previsión Social.

The Minister of Labor, Ángel Custodio Cabrera, announced this Friday that the subsidy from the National Government for the payment of the June "prima" ("Christmas bonus") will cover people who earn between a minimum wage and a million pesos (Extends the subsidy of 50% of the…

Extension of the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) well into the winter, which was initially only until June. An Act respecting further COVID-19 measures, passed on its third reading, allowing for the wage subsidy to last until December, if needed.

More relief underway for persons both with the financial unemployment relief as well as for the food assistance. Financial assistance, which has benefitted 23,705 persons as of now, will be extended up to December of this year. In his address, PM Barrow explained that with funds that remain from…

Nutritional Support Voucher, a single transfer of USD $ 240, intended for vulnerable people or people affected by the pandemic who have not received other vouchers, so that they have access to the purchase of food.

Food assistance will reach the double of beneficiaries. The PM expressed that so far, “39,129 households have received, and continue to receive, packages under our food assistance program. This has been at a cost of 20 million dollars; and with another 20 million coming from OFID, we are…

Bono "Unidos por la Vida", a one-time payment of 1,690,000 bolivars (approx. 4 USD) will be provided to families to face the economic crisis.

To cushion the impact of the lockdown and its restrictions on importers, the government waived rent charges and demurrages during the period of the lockdown between April 30 and March 19.

Adjusted from 24 March 2020: The temporary wage subsidy scheme is also being extended to March next year, but will be recast as a new scheme from September, with officials said to be working on a new permanent scheme which would see State support for temporarily laid-off workers. The extension…

The government of Singapore announced a special one-time “baby bonus” this week, in addition to an existing $10,000 package of benefits for new parents, to encourage more families to have children in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. “We have received feedback that COVID-19 [Chinese…