Devonshire Motors is creating a £30,000 “pot of gold” to reward staff for their hard work during the COVID-19 pandemic and deliver an added boost ahead of a period of expansion.
BCA has said that it is “confident” of the legality of its operating model and commercial relationship with its self-employed contractors – suggesting the model delivers mutually beneficial flexibility.
BCA could be set to face a legal case over hourly pay rates equating to as little as £2.30-per-hour for its delivery drivers.
Marshall Motor Holdings CEO Daksh Gupta has told AM “I can hold my head high” after the AM100 car retailer vowed to repay £4m in Government COVID support – and still match its 2019 financial performance in 2021.
Pendragon chief executive Bill Berman will receive bonus payments criticised as being “out of tune” despite a 42.2% vote against the PLC’s director remuneration at today’s AGM.
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.
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.
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.
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).
The HMRC has updated its guidance on how to perform usual hours calculations where employees come off furlough partway through a claim period.
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.
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).
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.
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%.
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).
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.
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.
