NumberMill | Furlough Claim Period Updated by the Government!

Furlough claim period updated to those on payroll on or before 19th March 2020!

The Government has updated their guidance yesterday afternoon regarding Furlough.

Please follow the link below for more information:

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/claim-for-wage-costs-through-the-coronavirus-job-retention-scheme

Employees you can claim for

You can only claim for furloughed employees that were on your PAYE payroll on or before 19 March 2020 and which were notified to HMRC on an RTI submission on or before 19 March 2020. This means an RTI submission notifying payment in respect of that employee to HMRC must have been made on or before 19 March 2020.

Employees that were employed as of 28 February 2020 and on payroll (i.e. notified to HMRC on an RTI submission on or before 28 February) and were made redundant or stopped working for the employer after that and prior to 19 March 2020, can also qualify for the scheme if the employer re-employs them and puts them on furlough.

Employees can be on any type of employment contract, including full-time, part-time, agency, flexible or zero-hour contracts. Foreign nationals are eligible to be furloughed. Grants under the scheme are not counted as ‘access to public funds’, and you can furlough employees on all categories of visa.

NumberMill are very hopeful that we are going to be in a position to make the first tranche of furlough payments (amounts yet to be defined) to those who qualify, on Friday 24 ^th April and this will be for a minimum period of 3 weeks, in line with Government guidance.

No payments will be made this week and for clarity, no worker from NumberMill has received a payment for furlough yet.

Please be advised that temps who call or email will not speed up their process.

The guidance for now, is to please bear with us as we are working as quickly as possible to get this addressed.

We will be including in our Furlough variation adjustment to our contract, a clause that makes it clear that the temporary workers must accept any work offered to them. Rest assured, that if you have issues with temps not wanting to undertake paid work, you should let us know and we will stop furlough payments.

The plan would be to pay all sums in arrears of them not working for a period of 3 weeks in batches of 3 weeks. This means we would not conflict with any hours where they have worked for you.

Our contact details:

Call us: 0333 121 2001

Email us: referrals@numbermill.co.uk

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