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Paper delivery boys and girls get furloughed

noahgriff
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Hey, My son's paper round was suspended amid the crisis but his wage has also been suspended, he usually gets £12 a week but now he gets nothing..... Should his paper company furlough him?
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No, because he probably wont be on the payroll through PAYE as £12 a week is nowhere near the threshold.
Why not pay him the £9.60 "furlough money" yourself as a stop gap.0 -
noahgriff said:Hey, My son's paper round was suspended amid the crisis but his wage has also been suspended, he usually gets £12 a week but now he gets nothing..... Should his paper company furlough him?
Why has your son's paper round been suspended?
Better that he goes to deliver to 100 houses, than 100 people go to the shop daily to collect their newspaper.
#StayHome,SaveLives
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sliphi said:noahgriff said:Hey, My son's paper round was suspended amid the crisis but his wage has also been suspended, he usually gets £12 a week but now he gets nothing..... Should his paper company furlough him?
Why has your son's paper round been suspended?
Better that he goes to deliver to 100 houses, than 100 people go to the shop daily to collect their newspaper.
#StayHome,SaveLivessliphi said:I only received a phone call from the lady who drops the papers round saying they are suspending the paper due to the crisis and this was the day after the lockdown was announced.noahgriff said:Hey, My son's paper round was suspended amid the crisis but his wage has also been suspended, he usually gets £12 a week but now he gets nothing..... Should his paper company furlough him?
Why has your son's paper round been suspended?
Better that he goes to deliver to 100 houses, than 100 people go to the shop daily to collect their newspaper.
He delivers for a free paper. He does 208 papers a week. He gets paid every 2 weeks and wage varies each week due to leaflets and size of paper (surprisingly). The free paper is produced by a regional newspaper company.0 -
sliphi said:noahgriff said:Hey, My son's paper round was suspended amid the crisis but his wage has also been suspended, he usually gets £12 a week but now he gets nothing..... Should his paper company furlough him?
Why has your son's paper round been suspended?
Better that he goes to deliver to 100 houses, than 100 people go to the shop daily to collect their newspaper.
#StayHome,SaveLives0 -
bradders1983 said:No, because he probably wont be on the payroll through PAYE as £12 a week is nowhere near the threshold.
Why not pay him the £9.60 "furlough money" yourself as a stop gap.0 -
From the sounds of the OPs second post, he has no chance at all at getting his son furloughed anyway, I did a paper round in exactly the same way when I was a teenager and I was paid by a brown envelope every Friday in cash when the papers and leaflets got dumped outside the house. No payslip and certainly not through PAYE.
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bradders1983 said:From the sounds of the OPs second post, he has no chance at all at getting his son furloughed anyway, I did a paper round in exactly the same way when I was a teenager and I was paid by a brown envelope every Friday in cash when the papers and leaflets got dumped outside the house. No payslip and certainly not through PAYE.0
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The fact its £12 a week means he wont be on any payroll system.0
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bradders1983 said:The fact its £12 a week means he wont be on any payroll system.0
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They wont have to put him on a PAYE payroll for those amounts though.
The company I worked for when I was a teenager produced all the newspapers in Manchester, hardly a tinpot outfit.0
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