New Employee

SPARK1961

I wondered anyone can point me in the right direction of finding some help?

We have a new member of staff, who has accepted a position and signed their contract, with a start date in the next couple of weeks. We would like to retain this staff member, for when work resumes, but we are not in a position to realistically start them under present circumstances. All our works have been cancelled and only skeleton staff remain maintaining necessary background operations from home. We are a small firm with less than 10 employees.

We are not certain whether the new employee could be paid under the staff retention scheme as they have not yet started for the company.

Are there any other options for paying this person? We are unable to pay full wages under the circumstance, but if they are not eligible for the retention scheme, we do want to support them by paying something. We have discussed this tentatively and we are unsure whether we could offer payment of equivalent to universal credit in the interim?

Jeremy535897

I guess you have a lawyer to draw up your contracts of employment. Your question is an employment law one depending on that contract. I suggest you ask the lawyer.