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Coronavirus: Your workplace questions

Steve Bridger

At this difficult time, we'd like to offer people managers (and others) who are not CIPD Members an opportunity to ask questions about their specific workplace challenges.

We hope that collectively, the Community will feel able to chip in with guidance and signpost support and resources where these exist.

Thank you. 

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  • Temporary homeworking question - just been reading through the policy on HR Inform and it is suggesting that employees are paid an amount to cover electricity, heating costs etc. Is anyone doing this and is there a fair amount I can suggest to employers?
  • in reply to Claire
    It might be useful to look at HMRC simplified expenses scheme for self employed as a guide. If you work from home self employed, you can claim a portion of home running expenses using complicated rules, or the simplified scheme which allows you to claim £26 per month as an expense if you are working >101 hours a month. (for 51 to 101 its £18, under 50 its £10).

    Now, I know your employees are not self employed by definition but it might be useful to have an arbitrary amount "we will pay you what HMRC would let you claim if you were self employed". That gets you out of difficult sums and arguments like "ah my boiler is very old so my gas bill is higher .... I live in my own so wouldn't normally heat the house ... the ch pump broke so I need £150 to get it fixed ....I need to put LED bulbs in everywhere .... my parrot needs extra food because it can't sleep while I'm working"

    It's no different from using AMAP rates for mileage - simple, externally referenced, reasonable.
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  • in reply to Claire
    It might be useful to look at HMRC simplified expenses scheme for self employed as a guide. If you work from home self employed, you can claim a portion of home running expenses using complicated rules, or the simplified scheme which allows you to claim £26 per month as an expense if you are working >101 hours a month. (for 51 to 101 its £18, under 50 its £10).

    Now, I know your employees are not self employed by definition but it might be useful to have an arbitrary amount "we will pay you what HMRC would let you claim if you were self employed". That gets you out of difficult sums and arguments like "ah my boiler is very old so my gas bill is higher .... I live in my own so wouldn't normally heat the house ... the ch pump broke so I need £150 to get it fixed ....I need to put LED bulbs in everywhere .... my parrot needs extra food because it can't sleep while I'm working"

    It's no different from using AMAP rates for mileage - simple, externally referenced, reasonable.
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