80% of promised wages based on February’s income? But I changed my job during this month?

glendalecobnut

I have just learned that as long as the company you work for will keep you on as a furlough worker  you will get paid 80% of your wages that the Government have promised.  My understanding of this is that the amount of money I would receive would be based on my income during the month of February.  The problem is that I worked for a different company for the first two weeks of February, then I had a unpaid week off.  I started my new job the last week of February.  Does this mean that my 80% will be based only on the last week I worked in February, and that is the amount that I will receive?  I am 55 years old.  I have worked all my life and always paid into the PAYE system.

Jeremy535897

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selina2000

glendalecobnut said:

I have just learned that as long as the company you work for will keep you on as a furlough worker  you will get paid 80% of your wages that the Government have promised.  My understanding of this is that the amount of money I would receive would be based on my income during the month of February.  The problem is that I worked for a different company for the first two weeks of February, then I had a unpaid week off.  I started my new job the last week of February.  Does this mean that my 80% will be based only on the last week I worked in February, and that is the amount that I will receive?  I am 55 years old.  I have worked all my life and always paid into the PAYE system.

What has your employer told you is happening to you?

The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme is a benefit offered to your employer in the expectation they won't make you redundant in these difficult times; it really has little to do directly with employees.

You presumably have a contract of employment. Your options are:
1. To attempt to hold your employer to that contract
2. Negotiate a mutually agreeable alternative in these difficult times.
3. Allow them to make you redundant, which will be very easy for your employer as you've only just joined them