Just changed jobs and now furloughed

MalcIrving

Hi, I am a Bar manager in our local pub and we are now furloughed as we shut on Friday. I have only been in the job approx two weeks, moved from PT (this was a second job) to full time hours. I started the New Bar manager role on the 14th March and worked full time for another employer and finished on the 13th March, how do they calculate the payment? does it also include my previous employer?
Any advice would be grateful,

HornetSaver

The short and frank answer is that this is not yet known. I would hope that furlough would be based on your position at the time of furlough.

Questions that may help this get answered as soon as the information becomes available, have you received your first pay yet for your new role, or are you due to before the end of March? If the answer to either of these is yes, I would hope that furlough would cover you but I stress nobody, not even Government truly knows the answer yet. It is possible, but in my opinion less likely, that furlough might cover you based on the contract of employment alone, but even if it does this is likely to take more time.

If the rumours that implementation of the furlough scheme will be based on PAYE data from February are true, then then the answer is it would likely be based on your previous part-time role, at least as far as April is concerned. Although in that instance it's likely that Universal Credit would bridge some of the gap if you're renting and/or have children.

Sorry to fill the answer with "ifs" and "buts", sadly the answer to this isn't currently known but trying to give you a feel for the lay of the land as best as is possible.