Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme/Furlough leave: resource round-up
Our full range of resources for HR on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme as extended until 30 April 2021 can be located in the list below using the drop-down menu (click on "Go to section" in the box above). We are continually updating and expanding our guidance - and indicate in the list where a resource is new.
We have a full range of resources on the coronavirus outbreak to help HR - see our Coronavirus: resource round-up and quick links to topics on that round-up below.
Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
- Furlough extended until 30 April 2021 (News) (New)
- How will the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme operate in the extended period until 30 September 2021?
- Extended furlough scheme - the issues that HR need to know about (New)
- Furlough extension: practical implications for HR
- Webinar: Extended furlough and other workforce protection measures
- When will the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme close?
- What is the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme?
- What are the deadlines for claims under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme? (New)
- What information will the Government make public about employers that claim under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme? (New)
- Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
- How to furlough employees under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
- What is flexible furlough?
- Does an employer need to obtain an employee's written agreement to be furloughed?
- Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and variation of contract
- Top 10 COVID-related claims employers could face in 2021 (New)
Which employees can be furloughed
- Can an employer rehire and furlough employees they had made redundant before the extension of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme was announced?
- Which employees can be furloughed under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme?
- Do employees have a right to be furloughed?
- Can an employer place an employee on furlough leave if they are off sick?
- Can an employee be furloughed if they are on maternity leave, or other family-related leave?
- Can agency workers be placed on furlough?
- Can apprentices be furloughed?
- Can an employer place an employee on furlough if they need to stay at home to look after their children?
- Can an employer rotate which employees are furloughed under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme?
Letters to employees
- Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Letter putting employee on full furlough
- Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Letter putting employee on flexible furlough
- Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Letter providing reminder to sign and return written agreement to be fully furloughed
- Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Letter providing reminder to sign and return written agreement to flexible furlough
- Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Letter confirming employee's full furlough
- Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Letter confirming employee's flexible furlough
- Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Letter to keep in touch with furloughed employee
- Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Letter informing employee at risk of redundancy that their job is safe for now
- Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Letter turning down employee's request to be furloughed
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): Letter to clinically extremely vulnerable employee who has been advised to shield
- Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Letter offering to extend furloughed employee's fixed-term contract
- Coronavirus and annual leave: Letter responding to employee's request to take holiday during furlough
Pay during furlough
- Does an employer that uses the Coronavirus Job Retention scheme to pay 80% of furloughed employees' wages have to make up the difference so they are paid in full?
- Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and pay
- Do employers have to pay national insurance contributions for furloughed employees?
- Do employers have to pay pension contributions for furloughed employees?
- Can an employer pay a furloughed employee 80% of their wages if this is below the national minimum wage rate?
- How should an employer calculate pay for an employee who is furloughed on return from maternity leave or other family-related leave?
Redundancy and furlough leave
- How to carry out redundancies when employees have been furloughed
- Does placing employees on furlough prevent the employer from making them redundant?
- How to consult collectively with a remote workforce during the coronavirus pandemic
Annual leave during furlough
- Annual leave and furlough under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
- Can an employee take annual leave while on furlough?
- Coronavirus and annual leave: Letter requiring furloughed employee to take holiday
- Coronavirus and annual leave: Letter responding to employee's request to take holiday during furlough
- How should employers deal with bank holidays that fall within a period of furlough leave?
- Does annual leave accrue during a period of lay-off or furlough?
Pension contributions under furlough
Work during furlough
- Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: What amounts to work?
- Coronavirus and your workforce podcast: When is a furloughed employee "working"?
- Employees cannot undertake work for their employer while they are on furlough, but what constitutes work?
- Can a furloughed employee start working for another organisation?
- If an employee has more than one job, can they be furloughed in one and continue to work in the other?
Preparing for the end of furlough
- When will the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme close?
- Coronavirus: Collective redundancy consultation and the special circumstances defence
- How to consult collectively with a remote workforce during the coronavirus pandemic
Quick links to sections in resource round-up on coronavirus
Coronavirus: resource round-up
Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
- Which employees can be furloughed
- Letters to employees
- Pay during furlough
- Redundancy and furlough leave
- Annual leave during furlough
- Pension contributions under furlough
- Work during furlough
- Preparing for the end of furlough
Coronavirus - as restrictions continue
Clinically vulnerable employees
- Redundancy
- Lay-offs and short-time working
- Contract changes
- Job offers
- Probationary periods
- Homeworking
Wellbeing, mental health and health and safety
- HR roles during the outbreak
- Workforce planning
- Pay awards
- Employee engagement
- Support for employees
- Managing employees
