Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

Businesses are totally exploiting the Government's Job Protection Scheme and using it as a way to furlough employees that they wouldn't have made redundant or let go because their re-recruitment cots/effort were too high. Now they are getting 80% of their salaries back and using that money to protect their cash positions.

I hate this sort of shit. The govts plan is too blunt a tool to stop businesses profiteering. /rant

I did wonder if people would be doing this. The optimist in me said they wouldn't. The accountant in me sai of course they fucking will.

Didn't your business fire a set of employees before the scheme came into effect? That seems worse to me.

Businesses are totally exploiting the Government's Job Protection Scheme and using it as a way to furlough employees that they wouldn't have made redundant or let go because their re-recruitment cots/effort were too high. Now they are getting 80% of their salaries back and using that money to protect their cash positions.

Easy Jet and Virgin both doing that, who knew...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-52085701

Exactly what’s happened at my place, which is deemed an essential service. We made a killing in the weeks leading up to the shut down, now four of us have been stood down so the owner’s son is running the place for 4 hours a day, so they’ll save on our wages while running on the bumper crop we earned leading up to the shutdown.

I can see why they did it, but I do think it’s taking advantage of the system. Meanwhile I’m at home doing nothing, I’ll get paid 80% of my usual salary but I’m as bored as arseholes and frankly I’d rather be at work.