Business and employers: coronavirus

Guidance and services

• Coronavirus support for your business
  Find out about help and support available during the coronavirus outbreak on Business Wales.
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): support for businesses
  Business rate relief, grants and loans for businesses to help during the disruption caused by COVID-19.
• Guidance to employers and businesses on COVID-19
  Information about COVID-19 for employers and businesses and what they need to do.
• Coronavirus (COVID 19): closure of businesses and premises
  Non-essential businesses and premises that must shut from 23 March 2020.
• Coronavirus: guidance for holiday accommodation businesses
  What holiday accommodation businesses must do as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
• Caring for your animals during the coronavirus outbreak
  How owners and keepers can care for their animals safely during the coronavirus pandemic.
• Rural Payments Wales (RPW): coronavirus (COVID-19)
  Latest update on RPW services affected by the coronavirus.
• EU Structural Funds programme: FAQs on the effect of coronavirus
  Guidance for project managers for EU Structural Funds programme on the effect of coronavirus (COVID-19).
• Request or provide personal protective equipment (PPE)
  Public sector tell us if you need personal protective equipment (PPE), suppliers tell us if you can provide more.
• Coronavirus key (critical) workers
  Who is designated a key worker, if their work is critical to the COVID-19 response.
• Financial help to keep your employees (furloughed workers)
  Employers can apply for staff to get up to 80% pay if they cannot work during the coronavirus pandemic.
• Coronavirus: financial help if you’re self employed
  A scheme to help self-employed people claim a grant to help if they've been affected by the coronavirus.
• Help if you’re making staff redundant
  Where to get information if you're an employer who needs to make staff redundant because of the coronavirus.
• Taking all reasonable measures to maintain physical distancing in the workplace
  Guidance under regulation 7A of the Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (Wales) Regulations 2020.
• ReAct and coronavirus: guidance for employers
  How to contact the ReAct team and information about offering a job to a redundant worker as an employer.
• ReAct and coronavirus: guidance for training providers
  Information for providers if you are unable to deliver training to ReAct participants as planned. Or if you have delivered ReAct training and now wish to make a claim.
• Coronavirus: guidance for local authorities on holiday accommodation
  What local authorities must do during the coronavirus outbreak.
• Coronavirus: guidance for holiday accommodation owners
  What holiday accommodation owners must do during the coronavirus outbreak.

Policy and background Includes strategy, reports, projects and assessments.

• The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Business Closure) (Wales) Regulations 2020 (revoked)
  Legislation
  Require the closure of businesses selling food or drink for consumption on the premises and the businesses listed.
• The Single Use Carrier Bags Charge (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2020
  Legislation
  These regulations exempt grocery delivery or collection services from the 5p charge.