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Grant of €9,000 for new staff engaged in customs work
Business owners, this Brexit Readiness Checker will give you a solid platform in time for new Customs rules from January 1st
The Ready for Customs grant will assist your business to increase its capacity to manage the customs process after 1st January 2021. Up to €9,000 is available for each new full-time employee engaged in customs work.
Sun, 03 Jan, 2021 - 11:54 The 1st of January will see the most fundamental change in Ireland s trading relationship with the UK and companies need to use the final weeks to ensure they are prepared. So says Emer O Byrne, senior executive with Enterprise Ireland s Brexit Unit.
The Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Leo Varadkar has written to every registered business in Ireland, urging them to prepare for Brexit, to thank them for the burden they have shouldered in the fight against Covid-19 and to inform them of changes to the National Minimum Wage and Illness Benefit.
The letter from the Tánaiste, which has been issued to approximately 225,000 businesses registered with the Companies Registration Office (CRO), thanks business owners for the work they have done over the past year in preventing the spread of the coronavirus. Business has had to shoulder a huge burden. Thank you for all you ve done, for keeping our economy going, for keeping so many people in employment and for co-operating with all the public health restrictions. Your efforts have saved many lives and prevented many more from getting sick, the Tánaiste said.
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Minimum wage set to increase to €10.20 an hour as illness benefit eligibility to change in January 2021
Updated: 23 Dec 2020, 11:44
THE TANAISTE has announced that the National Minimum wage is set to increase in 2021 - and the Illness Benefit eligibility time is going to decrease.
Leo Varadkar has today revealed that from January 1, 2021, the National Minimum wage will rise by 10c to €10.20.
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The changes to illness benefit eligibility mean that now employees will be able to avail of the payment after a period of three days of illness.
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This marks a change from the six days of illness that put workers in line for the payment previously.
Companies urged to make Brexit preparations before December 31
Written by Robert McHugh, on 21st Dec 2020. Posted in General
With 10 days to go until the UK leaves the EU, Irish companies have been urged to look at their Brexit preparations ahead of the hard December 31st deadline by Enterprise Ireland and the Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs).
On January 1st, new procedures will come into place for any company who is trading in or through the UK (excluding Northern Ireland) and companies who have not yet put provisions in place for this face the very real possibility of their goods being delayed at ports.
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From January 1, new procedures will come into place for any company who is trading in or through the UK
With 10 days to go until the UK leaves the EU, Enterprise Ireland and the Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs) are urging companies to look at their Brexit preparations ahead of the hard December 31 deadline.
From January 1, new procedures will come into place for any company who is trading in or through the UK (excluding Northern Ireland).
Companies who have not yet put provisions in place for this face the very real possibility of their goods being delayed at ports, Enterprise Ireland and LEO warned.