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Is this a Significant change? Travel republic
I have a holiday booked to Dubai on the 27th August returning on 6th september, all flights, accomodation and transfers booked as a package. I was hoping to cancel and claim on my insurance with the Post Office if the FCO advice was not to travel. I am covered for this as I took out the travel insurance on 3rd March. I…
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Pay for self isolation for returning to the UK
Hi, i wonder if anyone knows any way to get any pay if you've returned from Spain since the changes. There is no SSP and if you've not been furloughed before, you can't now be placed on furlough... so for anyone who was in Spain at the time of announcement is stuck without any pay unless their boss is nice.... that's the…
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Wife being refused her furlough pay
My wife is currently on holiday and when she gets back, she will have to isolate for 14 days. Her employer has text saying that she will not be getting her furlough pay for August, as she is unavailable to work during that 2 week period. I have been trying to find relevant guidance around this but have found it difficult…
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Hotel booking in Spain
So this is my scenario - Unable to now go to Spain, hotel refusing to refund, Hotels.com refusing to refund albeit their is a clear statement on their website that 'if the destination is inaccessible we will offer you a full refund or voucher to use at any hotel on our website' (which I have quoted and they keep ignoring).…
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Going Back to Work Help
Just yesterday I came back from Spain and was told to self isolate with my family. When calling my work (I work at M&S and i’m just a shop assistant on fixed term) I told them this. However, i was told that because i’m a key worker and if I get tested at a testing center and it shows negative I can come into work, is this…
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Redundancy, Furlough & Maternity leave Loophole
I am looking for some advice, my wife is currently on maternity which is due to finish tomorrow (Friday 31st July), she was told 2 weeks ago she will go on furlough till end of the scheme, but today she was called into work to be told, due to Covid-19 they are restructuring 7 departments and merging them into one, with 11…
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Apprentice made redundant with no notice
My son has received notice at 8pm today that he will be made redundant from tomorrow. He was not consulted and had no idea this was likely to happen. He has been on furlough since lockdown as his office was closed but no mention was made to him that he would be made redundant, he was fully expecting to return to work and…
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Flexible Furlough
Over the last few months my employer has had me on furlough for three weeks, then worked three weeks, then after the first six weeks, I was not re furloughed as the company didnt want to abuse the scheme. However, other members of staff were re furloughed. However, since July I've been labelled as flexible furlough (signed…
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Only employee not back to work
Hi I am the manager of a small shop, All five people have been brought back to work Apart from myself. It’s parts of a large chain so being paid 100% furloughed wages, I am just very concerned that if the head office can see the team can Cope without me (a manager from another store is visiting them once a fortnight and is…
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Ferlough bank holidays
I work full time for a local blinds firm and was on furlough until beginning june. Over this period I was on the 80% wage. During this time there were 4 bank holidays. I understand that my holiday allowance is 28 days per year 20 days to be taken at any time and the 8 bank holidays. As I understand from reading the…
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Easyjet only cancelled one way
Good Afternoon. Am due to go to Berlin Mid September, and Easyjet have cancelled our return flight, the outgoing flight is still going ahead. There are no alternative flights back that suit us due to times, so we want to cancel the while booking and get a refund. Will Easyjet refund the whole booking even though only one…
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Love Holidays won't refund inbound flight
Help! Booked a packaged holiday to Turkey last year through Love Holidays, paid in full, due to travel on 1st August. Outbound flight with TUI was cancelled two weeks ago, received confirmation from TUI that flights had been refunded to a card number we don't recognise - presumably to Love Holidays. Have been attempting to…
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Expedia Holiday - Easyjet Flights - Hotel Closure
Hi, and given the amount of threads at the moment thanks for reading/any help! Assuming there will be many more in the same boat but can't quite seem to find the same answer across the board. Booked a holiday to Spain in January so before COVID-19 kicked off with Expedia with all elements of the Holiday (Flight+Hotel+Car)…
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Refund
Just before lockdown I was on holiday mid cruise to India but the port authorities would not allow us to dock. We were due to continue on land with a private tour On 15th March. However as we could only dock in Australia On the18th March we were unable to commence the tour and had to fly home at extra cost to us. The…
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Germany flight cancellations
I have a short break to Berlin booked for September. Flights are with EasyJet and have just been cancelled and I can’t work out why. I can’t find anything online about any travel restrictions to Germany but also can’t find any airlines offering flights before October. Does anyone know why this is please? I have…
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Ryan air
Please can you help with this issue We booked flights with ryanair to lanzarote and due to government advice try to change them through Ryan air who are telling everyone they will waiver the change over fee Unfortunately this is not the case after trying to get through their chat system for over 2 hours we were told that…
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EasyJet flight voucher can’t be used against EasyJet Holliday???
Hi ,bit of a complex one this ,will try and keep as brief as possible ,We had flights booked with EasyJet early July for a family trip to Alton towers ,due to our sons condition, new regulations and the uncertainty around the time of travel we had no choice but to abandon our trip ,Alton towers refunded in full ,no problem…
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Being Tupe to another company whilst on Furlough
Hi, I was advised on 27.7.20 that my employment has been Tupe to another company and i will now longer employed by them from 01.08.20. There has been not discussions with me and at present the furlough pay i am receiving is 90%. The new company has said that they will furlough me @ 80% and then probably make me redundant.…
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Any providers of Travel Insurance to Spain despite the FCO advise?
Apologies if this has already been asked in the forums, I did look but couldn't find a thread. Are there any providers of Travel Insurance to Spain where cover is still in place despite the FCO advise "for non essential travel to Spain" issued on 25 July 20?I have found 2 providers, that I have not come across before: I…
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New Law on redundancy pay
I read a SKY article earlier that as of today the government is telling companies who are making furloughed staff redundant they should pay them full pay! Does anyone know if they mean full Statutory pay or contractual pay? My redundancy notice period ends today and I’m being paid statutory pay which is a good bit lower…
