My company won't rehire me and furlough....Help!!

sharpe106

 The scheme is designed to help companies keep staff that they will need after the coronavirus has passed. It does not help them once it has passed and they have got a reduction in work and still have all the staff. Although it would be nice for you for them to keep you on for another 3 months till it passes and the government to pay you their is no legal reason for them to.

Jeremy535897

7Phil said:

Jeremy535897 said:

They are really saying that their staff numbers exceed what they require for the foreseeable future. Coronavirus is just the tipping point. The coronavirus job retention scheme exists to preserve jobs for the future. It is not there to give employees 80% of three (or maybe more) months' extra wages if the employer has already decided that they will be made redundant as soon as the scheme ends. That may seem inhumane, but the alternative is dishonest.

I still do not agree. If the employee would not have been made redundant if coronavirus did not come along then that means they have been because of it. That's not being dishonest. It's a time of uncertainty anyway. The employer should give the employee the benefit of the doubt and secure their income through this period if they had the power to do so.

It seemed clear to me that, in this particular case and on the facts as stated by the OP, that some redundancies were round the corner anyway, coronavirus or not. That is the point I was making. The coronavirus job retention scheme is not designed to preserve a job for only the length of the scheme. If I am misinterpreting the facts in this particular case, I still believe in the principle stated above for cases that do fit the circumstances.