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NLJ this week: Redundancy on furlough

02 October 2020
Issue: 7904 / Categories: Legal News , Covid-19 , Employment
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Furloughed employees who are subsequently made redundant should not lose out on redundancy pay, under legislation in force since 31 July

Writing in NLJ this week, Mills & Reeve lawyer Charles Pigott discusses the regulations and their impact on redundancy pay. While they have gone some way to clarifying the application of the rules on calculating a week’s pay to furloughed employees, Pigott says ‘their very complexity underlines the fact that these rules are unnecessarily elaborate’. See here.

Issue: 7904 / Categories: Legal News , Covid-19 , Employment
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