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Furlough
Hi, My work is secured by a recruitment business and I am employed by an
umbrella firm. This gives me continuity of employment with all statutory rights
and benefits whilst enabling me to work for numerous different short-term assignments.
I have no further work assignments due to the impact of Coronavirus. I fall within…
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Forced annual leave whilst on furlough
If an employer has furloughed you until end of June (for now) can they force you to "handover" your annual leave entitlement during that period? This would mean the government is effectively paying 80% of your annual leave entitlement and you may not have any left when you do return to work? My firiend who works as a…
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Scott Dunn refusing refund
We are due to travel to Greece on 30th may. We booked through Scott Dunn and are flying with BA staying at the Westin resort. We have asked for a refund but they will only offer voucher or to rebook. When we have insisted on a refund they have told us that they don’t feel the rules for package holidays are not suitable so…
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Annual Leave - Being forced to take all annual leave while on furlough
Just looking for a bit of advice. I have been furloughed. My employer is going to force me to take all my annual leave accrued and that carried over from a previous year, leaving me with no annual leave on return to work. Surely they cannot force you take all your leave especially when you are on a strict lockdown and…
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covid 19 wedding advice
Just wanted a bit of advice for my friend. She was due to get married in august this year but due to the covid 19 she’s rebooked the wedding for september next year, to make sure that her family that lives overseas can make it and that she can have all her loved ones with her. Everything is rebooked at the venue for next…
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Return to work
My employer (Construction Sector) has today extended my furlough period until the end of June despite the government telling us Construction Works can restart. Their reasons are that this is because they wish to run on a skeleton staff basis but I know other departments are using the scheme to their advantage as they have…
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Service Charge on Retirement Property we can't sell
My Mother died a few weeks before the lockdown. We have not been able to have any agent or prospective buyer visit her flat as its in a retirement block - totally fair enough. But we are being charged huge amounts for service charge and ground rent even though we can't access the place at all. Can they still charge us?…
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Bounce bank loan - discharged bankrupt
I have a new limited company formed October 2019. I have a cashplus business account. They do not offer bounce bank loans. I cannot access this loan, because I cannot find a bank that will give me a business account ( I dont pass eligibility because I've been bankrupt in the last 6 years) . I have basic personal accounts…
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Childcare Voucher Refunds
I've recently requested a refund of childcare vouchers. I changed my amount as soon as the Lockdown/school closures were announced. The system is slow so it took the max amount and I'm now £600 in credit. The issue is my daughter now has turned 3 so is entitled to 30 hours free so I don't need the build up. The vouchers…
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Self employed not going to survive this
Boris says we are supposed to go back to work today but I have lost most of my customers a few of us have fallen through the net and don’t get any help i have no choice but to consider bankruptcy due to the crisis I haven’t been able to pay rent where I live for April or May, if I go bankrupt now, personally not my…
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Wedding in Spain
Hi, myself and my fiancé were due to get married in Spain on the 12/5/2020. The hotel is currently closed until the 24/5/2020. They have told us we can change the date for which they say they won’t charge us for ( how kind ) or if we want to cancel we will lose all of the money we have paid. Our booking terms state that…
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Non used holidays
Hi does anyone know of my boss who has furloughed us all does he have the right to take away all our unused holidays for the rest of the year and say if we want to take a holiday later we will have to do over time to earn it. I haven’t used any of my holiday this year so far.
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Ebookers
I'm the first one to moan when things don't go as expected to. However I just want to commend Ebookers for the promptly refund. Supposed to be in London in a couple of weeks for a 'Girly' Weekend. However the Hotel is closed so they cancelled the Booking. Now, I fully expected to be offered vouchers ( I would then be…
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Return to work after furlough on reduced pay but initially told full pay.
Good morning, My first time on here, starting with background and then my questions at the end. Any help would be great :) I have been on furlough for over 3 weeks and then my employer asked if I could come back to work in a project for an initial temporary period of 10 days. This involves going into the office and on the…
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Only person not Furloughed but doing other Furloughed staff work
I work for a small law firm ( 3 solicitors and 3 secretary's. I deal with areas of law that are able to progress and others deal with property/ conveyancing which is (apparently on hold) boss has fruloughed all property department and allowed me to work from home... for 2 days then decided that I had to go into office. He…
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Newly self employed
Have paid tax for the last 15 years in employed roles. Decided to go self employed in June 2019 so don't have previous tax returns. Why are newly self employed being discriminated against?
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Exchanging contracts in lockdown - covid 19 clause?!
Hi I was hoping for some advice (apologies if already covered but there was a lot of posts to read through!) I am currently in a 5 person chain - all was progressing well and we were near on at the stage of exchange just as lock down hit. We are now in a situation where some of the solicitors in the chain are happy to…
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Virgin Holiday Rebook
My family has booked a Florida holiday with Virgin. There are seven in the party and we're meant to are travelling this coming August. We are due to pay the balance by May 14th. Unfortunately, however, we now have to rebook. We have two key workers in the group (who will struggle to take the leave now) + someone in a high…
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Private accomodation booking
This discussion was created from comments split from: jet2 have refunded cost of cancelled May 2020 holiday, how do I get a refund of the health insurance.
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World Health Organization adds Anosmia to official symptoms ( loss of sense of smell)
WHO finally adds , loss of sense of smell to official symptoms.
https://www.who.int/health-topics/coronavirus Please don't give or ask for medical advice on this thread Edit. Anosmia now added to official symptoms on 111 , 18th May
