On 3 April 2020, the Home Office updated its Coronavirus Guidance for Tier 2, 4 and 5 sponsors to add clarifications as to whether and by how much companies who have a sponsorship licence can reduce the salaries to their Tier 2 G and ICT migrant workers.<\/p>\n
This update only applies to companies when they cannot pay the salaries of their sponsored employees due to the fact that they have temporarily reduced or ceased trading on account of the current COVID-19 crisis<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n If a sponsor fits in the above category, they are allowed to reduce the pay of their sponsored employees to whichever is the lower of the following two options:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n However, the reduction of salary must be:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n What do these rules imply?<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n What can a Tier 2 sponsor do now if their business is heavily impacted by the current situation?<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Please note that the new guidance for sponsored workers and the Job Retention Scheme is different. Workers on the Job Retention Scheme are given a \u201cpaid leave\u201d and cannot work while being furloughed, whilst in the guidance mentioned above, Tier 2 migrant workers still need to work but at a reduced salary and working hours, if necessary or they can be placed on unpaid leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On 3 April 2020, the Home Office updated its Coronavirus Guidance for Tier 2, 4 and 5 sponsors to add clarifications as to whether and by how much companies who have a sponsorship licence can reduce the salaries to their Tier 2 G and ICT…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-working-in-the-uk"],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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