Coronavirus updates: Support for your business
Coronavirus: Business support
Find out how to access the support that has been made available to NI businesses and employees - who is eligible and how to apply
- Coronavirus: Support for businesses and employees in Northern Ireland - a quick guide (PDF, 267K)
- Coronavirus: Find out what financial support you can get for your business
Coronavirus: Guidance and support
Find information and support to help manage the impact of COVID-19
Financial support | Paying your employees
- Ask HMRC not to publish your Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme claim details
- Pay Job Retention Scheme grants back
- Closed to applications | Check if you can claim for your employees' wages through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
- Closed to applications | Check which employees you can put on furlough to use the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
- Closed to applications | Individuals you can claim for through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme who are not employees
- Closed to applications | Steps to take before calculating your claim using the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
- Closed to applications | Calculate how much you can claim using the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
- Closed to applications | Claim for wages through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
- Closed to applications | Download a template if you're claiming for 100 or more employees through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
- Closed to applications | Reporting employees' wages to HMRC when you've claimed through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
Financial support | Paying sick pay
Financial support | Paying tax
Financial support | Business rates relief
Financial support | Business support grants
Financial support | Self-employed
- Coronavirus: Support and advice for the self-employed
- Tell HMRC and pay the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme grant back
- Closed to applications | Self-Employment Income Support Scheme - fifth grant
- Closed to applications | Check if you can claim a grant through the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme
- Closed to applications | Claim a grant through the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme
- Closed to applications | Work out your turnover so you can claim the fifth SEISS grant
- Closed to applications | How your circumstances affect eligibility for the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme
- Closed to applications | How your trading conditions affect your eligibility for the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme
- Closed to applications | How HMRC works out trading profits and non-trading income for the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme
Financial support | Small and medium-sized businesses
- General Export Facility - export finance support for small businesses
- Recovery Loan Scheme
- Closed to applications | Bounce Back Loan scheme
- Closed to applications |Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme - for small and medium-sized businesses
- Closed to applications | COVID-19 Equity Investment Fund
- Closed to applications | Future Fund for innovative businesses
- Closed to applications | Innovation Continuity Loans
Financial support | Large businesses
Financial support | Apprenticeships
Businesses closures and restrictions
Managing staff
- Coronavirus: Changes to right to work checks
- Coronavirus: Guidance on managing vaccination issues in the workplace
- Vaccination and the law - guidance for employers and service providers
- Virtual recruitment of new staff
- Hybrid working guidance for employers
- Coronavirus: Online isolation notes - providing proof of absence from work
- Coronavirus: Rules on carrying over annual leave relaxed
- Coronavirus: Supporting staff on the return to the workplace
Working safely
- Coronavirus: Workplace safety guidelines
- Coronavirus: Ventilation and air conditioning in the workplace
- Coronavirus: Example workplace risk assessment template for COVID-19
- Coronavirus testing for businesses with less than ten employees
- Coronavirus testing for businesses with ten or more employees
- Coronavirus: Working safely in different business settings
- Coronavirus: Guide to making workplaces safer and priority sector list
- Coronavirus: Guidance for the hospitality industry on maintaining records of staff, customers and visitors
- Coronavirus: Safer transport guidance for operators
- Coronavirus: Indoor seated venues guidance
- Coronavirus: Indoor visitor attractions guidance
- Coronavirus: Retail and enclosed shopping centres guidance
- Public health information for retail businesses
Driving and transport
Property
Trading internationally
Volunteering and offering help
NI Executive strategy and regulations
Other support
Coronavirus: Other business support information
Find advice on key business areas that you may need guidance on as you manage the current challenges.
- Business continuity and crisis management
- Managing financial difficulty
- Change an employee's terms of employment
- Redundancy and lay-offs
- Redundancy and short-time working
- Employers' responsibilities when closing down a business
- Employees working from home
- Hybrid working guidance for employers
- Flexible working: the law and best practice
- Liability insurance for your business
- Assess the health and safety risks in your business
- Coronavirus testing for businesses with less than ten employees
- Coronavirus testing for businesses with ten or more employees
- Ventilation in the workplace