Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme/Furlough leave: resource round-up
NOTE: This round-up contains resources on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) that we published up to 31 March 2021. For recent information, visit our dedicated CJRS topic page and sign up to our daily email alert, ensuring you select the "Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme/Furlough leave" topic.
Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
- Budget 2021: Furlough extension, business cash grants and more (News)
- How did the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme operate in the extended period up to 30 September 2021?
- Extended furlough scheme - the issues that HR need to know about
- Furlough extension: practical implications for HR
- Webinar: Extended furlough and other workforce protection measures
- When did 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?
- What information will the Government make public about employers that claim under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme?
- 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
Which employees can be furloughed
- 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?
- 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 did 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 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
