Furlough and redundancy

bradders1983

He could but why would he or she want to when he or she still has to pay NI contributions etc?

epm-84

MattMattMattUK said:

In theory yes, but it will cause some issues where redundancy payments have been made. Also it is highly unlikely the company will want to do so as it will cost them (around 20% of salary) even if they do not top up. You can always ask, but I would expect the answer to be no.

Actually it's between almost nothing and 20%, depending how much you earn.  If you're part time earning £625 a month the cost to employer is only the cost of annual leave as they'll be no employer NI and no statutory pension contributions.  At the maximum of £2500 it'll be around the 20% you quote but if you think most people earn more than £2500 a month you're sadly mistaken.