Samuel Phillips Law Blog
Rishi Sunak has just issued the summer statement and has outlined details of a job retention bonus scheme. Guidance is to be issued by 31 July, which I suspect means in practice 5.00 pm 31 July 2020. The requirements of the scheme seem to be quite simple.
Redundancy selection criteria is one of the most contentious areas within redundancy. It need not be. As the acronym suggests “keep it simple stupid”. You can have objective criteria (eg attendance). You can have subjective criteria (eg attitude). In effect, as long as the criteria you select are not utter drivel eg “karma” that is fine. The key issue is to draw up clear guidelines of what you mean and how you score with examples.
1 July is the day that the Flexible Furlough Scheme starts. Those who have been on furlough and are going to remain on furlough do not require anything. Leave them alone. To those you are intending to potentially return to work under the Flexible Furlough Scheme either part time or increasing hours or flexible hours then there needs to be a Flexible Furlough Agreement issued and preferably signed.
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