Maternity / furlough
Discussion
One of my wifes colleagues has Linked In messaged her.
It appears she has been furloughed from the letter she received (one could argue lucky to receive post, we've had two postal deliveries on four weeks, wife wonders if she is furloughed but no one has told her..........).
From the scan of the letter it looks generic, rather than sent to her individually. It has her staff number on in the reference, but refers to "Dear Colleague".
IHer take home is more than, but not double £2.5k per month and their Mat Leave is six months normal pay of the twelve months rest at Stat Mat.
She is in a blind panic as whilst she is usually in an alright position she'd just bought a BTL to help with the "unpaid" period of maternity. The tenant there has done a runner. Her husband is also out of work, was a freelancer who paid himself minimum wage, yet had a company Range Rover! Ooops!
Can you be furloughed on Maternity? Wife whom is still working as she in on production on plant can't find anyone other than other production staff and the managers on the plant don't want to sort out the "back office" staff issues.
Usefully the HR 'phone number she has rings and then goes to an "out of office message - 'Hi, we're furloughed, please contact your manager''". Her managers 'phone is off. E-mails all reply with "Out of office. Furloughed. please don not contact again".
My betting is seeing you can be laid off during maternity you can be fuloughed too, bu wife seems to thing that is wrong. I'd say it was immoral, but don't know the law.
It appears she has been furloughed from the letter she received (one could argue lucky to receive post, we've had two postal deliveries on four weeks, wife wonders if she is furloughed but no one has told her..........).
From the scan of the letter it looks generic, rather than sent to her individually. It has her staff number on in the reference, but refers to "Dear Colleague".
IHer take home is more than, but not double £2.5k per month and their Mat Leave is six months normal pay of the twelve months rest at Stat Mat.
She is in a blind panic as whilst she is usually in an alright position she'd just bought a BTL to help with the "unpaid" period of maternity. The tenant there has done a runner. Her husband is also out of work, was a freelancer who paid himself minimum wage, yet had a company Range Rover! Ooops!
Can you be furloughed on Maternity? Wife whom is still working as she in on production on plant can't find anyone other than other production staff and the managers on the plant don't want to sort out the "back office" staff issues.
Usefully the HR 'phone number she has rings and then goes to an "out of office message - 'Hi, we're furloughed, please contact your manager''". Her managers 'phone is off. E-mails all reply with "Out of office. Furloughed. please don not contact again".
My betting is seeing you can be laid off during maternity you can be fuloughed too, bu wife seems to thing that is wrong. I'd say it was immoral, but don't know the law.
Step daughter is currently on mat leave.
Now shes been told that if she was to go on furlough for any period she would not be able to return to mat leave.
As she enquired about it due to furlough being more money than her current mat leave pay.
So im in to see if any of the above is right or just company bull.
Now shes been told that if she was to go on furlough for any period she would not be able to return to mat leave.
As she enquired about it due to furlough being more money than her current mat leave pay.
So im in to see if any of the above is right or just company bull.
1. An employee can not "be furloughed" without their agreement. Employment law still stands.
2. Normal maternity law still applies BUT the Guidance says
"You can claim through the scheme for enhanced (earnings related) contractual pay for employees who qualify for either:
maternity pay"
2. Normal maternity law still applies BUT the Guidance says
"You can claim through the scheme for enhanced (earnings related) contractual pay for employees who qualify for either:
maternity pay"
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