Under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, all employers in the UK will be able to access support to continue paying part of employees’ salaries who would otherwise have been laid off during the ongoing crisis. Furloughed workers are employees whose employers cannot cover their staff costs due to coronavirus, and as such they have been asked to stop working but the employer does not want to make them redundant. Such employers will shortly be able to access support to continue paying part of their staff’s wages, to avoid redundancies and so they can retain their teams.
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