Furlough scheme

Chardonnay1

Hi
i am on a zero hrs contract being paid flexi furlough 
I will earn more than 2500 will I get this money or is it capped?
if I do not get paid for what I earn can I request to come off flexi furlough & be paid normally?
thanks in advance for your reply 

Grumpy_chap

Chardonnay1 said:

Hi
i am on a zero hrs contract being paid flexi furlough 
I will earn more than 2500 will I get this money or is it capped?
if I do not get paid for what I earn can I request to come off flexi furlough & be paid normally?
thanks in advance for your reply 

That does not entirely make sense - if you are on zero hours contract and paid normally, but do zero hours, then you would get nothing.

When did you start with the employer?  That determines the reference period that the average pay relates to for calculating furlough entitlement.  

Jeremy535897

"(d) monthly cap for claims

Under the new scheme, the £2,500 monthly cap is proportional to the usual hours not worked, so, for example, consider an employee with monthly wages of £3,750 returning to work part time for 80 hours out of their usual monthly hours of 164 in July. As 80% of their usual wages is £3,000 a month then on first glance you might think that the amount of pay that can be claimed for the hours NOT worked is £3,000 x 84/164 = £1,536 (allowed as it is below the monthly cap of £2,500). But the cap on the amount of grant available is £2,500 x 84/164 = £1,280.48. So, the maximum claim isn’t £1,536 but £1,280.48."

From https://www.litrg.org.uk/latest-news/news/200702-fretting-about-flexible-furlough

TBagpuss

The amount that you can be paid via the furlough scheme is capped at £2,500 per month, but you are flexed then you should be paid your normal rate for all of the hours you actually work. then you can be paid 80% of your normal average earnings, for the hours you are furloughed. The cap is worked out based on the proportion of your normal hours that you are furloughed for  - so if you normally work a 5 day week but are furloughed for 3 days, then the cap would be £1,500 (3/5 of £2,500)

there is a calculator here you use to work out what you should get 

MattMattMattUK

TBagpuss said:

The amount that you can be paid via the furlough scheme is capped at £2,500 per month, but you are flexed then you should be paid your normal rate for all of the hours you actually work. then you can be paid 80% of your normal average earnings, for the hours you are furloughed. The cap is worked out based on the proportion of your normal hours that you are furloughed for  - so if you normally work a 5 day week but are furloughed for 3 days, then the cap would be £1,500 (3/5 of £2,500)

there is a calculator here you use to work out what you should get 

That is true, but due to the changes the amounts employers can claim, which are July (£2,287.50), August (£1,875) and September (£1,875) I suspect there might well be a bit of a spike in redundancies as it is more efficient to have one person working full time than two part time on part furlough. 

TBagpuss

MattMattMattUK said:

TBagpuss said:

The amount that you can be paid via the furlough scheme is capped at £2,500 per month, but you are flexed then you should be paid your normal rate for all of the hours you actually work. then you can be paid 80% of your normal average earnings, for the hours you are furloughed. The cap is worked out based on the proportion of your normal hours that you are furloughed for  - so if you normally work a 5 day week but are furloughed for 3 days, then the cap would be £1,500 (3/5 of £2,500)

there is a calculator here you use to work out what you should get 

That is true, but due to the changes the amounts employers can claim, which are July (£2,287.50), August (£1,875) and September (£1,875) I suspect there might well be a bit of a spike in redundancies as it is more efficient to have one person working full time than two part time on part furlough. 

Yes, I think you are right.  - and employers who were waiting to see how well their business recovered will be having to decide whether it is worth keeping people on, on furlough, as it becomes more expensive, or whether to bite the bullet and make them redundant.