Holiday pay as furlough payment

GrobyGirl

Hello, I need some advice please! I am being made redundant at the end of July. My employer has advised I need to take unused holiday during this time, but has indicated it will need to be taken during my statutory leave notice (1 month), and the remainder of my notice will be paid as furlough. Is this right? I hoped I was entitled to notice pay plus holiday pay at 100%?

General_Grant

You are entitled to your contractual notice paid at 100%.  That can include payment for holiday accrued up to the date of termination.  Holiday does not have to be paid on top when they have given you notice to take the holiday, which they are doing in this case.

If your statutory notice period is a month, does that mean you have worked there for 4 or 5 years?   If so  and they are saying your dismissal is on the grounds of redundancy, then you are due for statutory redundancy pay too.

sharpe106

I would hope for 100% of wages for contractual notice but the government has not stated anything on that score. 

General_Grant

sharpe106 said:

I would hope for 100% of wages for contractual notice but the government has not stated anything on that score. 

And why should they?

sharpe106

So people would know as your furloughed pay is your current temporary pay, notice period is still wages so therefore why should it be a 100%?  

General_Grant

@sharpe106
Returning to say I don't know what "the government" has stated but the Insolvency Service are using pay rates pre-furlough.

sharpe106

I am sure they are and I would hope that most employers would pay 100%. But my point is I have seen nothing that clearly states it is 100% if an employer is trying to pay 80%. So if the employer is trying to pay current furlough rate there is nothing that says it clearly from the government normal pay, even ACAS has been vague on the point.

General_Grant

I would have thought the Insolvency Service was a governmental body and thus applying the rules which should be applied to all redundancies of people who have been furloughed and that any trying not to do that should be challenged.

sharpe106

I am not saying don't challenge it I am just saying there is nothing to point to. If you have the sort of employer that is going to do that then they are not just going to accept it until they are told to basically. 

General_Grant

OK - point to the gov.uk website.  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/furlough-and-redundancy/furlough-and-redundancy#rate-of-pay

And, though it is not, of course, "the government", the BBC website also says 100% in advising on the topic