Length of furlough?

Dubberz

Morning All,
Apologies if this has been discussed.
Anybody shed any light on the length of furlough that will be subsidised?
My company says it is 6 weeks, however, my partner's company says 3 months up until end of may?

My company is still open, hers will be closing aside from emergencies (dental).

Suseka97

The government job retention scheme is backdated to 1st March and initially open for 3 months, but will be extended if necessary.  It's up to each individual employer whether they wish to offer this to employees and up to them for how long.  It's not a mandatory thing.  Your company may be working on the assumption that they will only need to furlough staff/you for 6 weeks, noting yours is still open.

Dubberz

Thank you for your reply.

My boss actually thinks that only 6 weeks of funding is available. 

His thinking is that if we close and put workers on furlough now, after 6 weeks we may have forcedto come back to work and possibly be forced to close and have no funding as we have 'spent it'.

Make sense?

My understanding is that we can furlough 'for the foreseeable' I.e, till end of May and receive the 80% funding?

bruno18

Company can Furlough till the End Of May, they should really be using this approach and take the 80% grant for each employees wages.
If they don't it leads to the possibility of leaking money each week and then when all this is behind us potentially not having not enough money to stay afloat and then actually letting people go.
Businesses didn't have this grace in 2008 so I would hope nobody in that position would be so Naive this time around when help is there for them. 

Dubberz

I think this is the confusion. 

I will speak to him and try to get him to understand. 

Tough and very uncertain times indeed.

Thanks for your help guys!

Suseka97

He needs to go onto the gov.uk website and read the guidance 'support for businesses' - it's all there.