I am posting this item in this forum in the hope that there are some members who employ staff.
With one of my hats on I look after the Payroll and PAYE of a Village Hall including. Back in March last year I furloughed our two members of staff and retained them on 100% pay up until 31st December, originally thinking that all would be back to normal come late summer, wrong... I did take them both off Furlough when there was a gap in lock-down - but of course their take home pay remained the same. From 1st January to the present I took the option to pay them both the 80% that I could claim from HMRC.
It occurred to me a few times, that what if when they can return to work and I take them off furlough, they take the view of "thanks for paying us for nothing, bye bye". Anyway, as you may guess in reply to my email to the one who didn't answer the phone call that we were reopening on Monday 3rd May (we are in Wales, so dates etc different here) I received an email saying that she was unable to return to work. I have yet to work out what we have lost, ie the difference between what we received from Job Retention Scheme funding and what we paid out to her since last year after taking into account the time off furlough.
I guess that I will not be alone.
Rant over...
Clive
