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Skyblueweeman

Skyblueweeman

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Skyblueweeman said:
Friday is my last day as well Dave. I'm going off with a 40% wage reduction and no sign yet if my contract will be renewed once the maternity cover I took 11 months again ends mid-May.

Hoping to get an email from HR today. Furlough I can deal with. 40% reduction in wages I can deal with (with the help of the mortgage window). Not knowing if I have a job after mid-May is the sole concern for me at the moment.
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Just found out they've extended my contract until the end of June so I get 3 months furlough pay. I'll then be unemployed after 10 years service with no redundancy pay. Feels like a kick in the bollocks that I just drop of their radar after 10 years good service. I understand (I think) the reasoning behind it though.

Hey ho. At least my wife, my boy and I are all healthy and with the mortgage break, we can survive for the next 3-4 months and potentially save some more money.

Time to look for a new job or consider starting up my own sports accommodation business.

Life-changing.
 
clint van damme

clint van damme

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Skyblueweeman said:
Just found out they've extended my contract until the end of June so I get 3 months furlough pay. I'll then be unemployed after 10 years service with no redundancy pay. Feels like a kick in the bollocks that I just drop of their radar after 10 years good service. I understand (I think) the reasoning behind it though.

Hey ho. At least my wife, my boy and I are all healthy and with the mortgage break, we can survive for the next 3-4 months and potentially save some more money.

Time to look for a new job or consider starting up my own sports accommodation business.

Life-changing.
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At least you've got a bit of breathing space. Good luck WM.
 
Ring Of Steel

Ring Of Steel

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Skyblueweeman said:
Just found out they've extended my contract until the end of June so I get 3 months furlough pay. I'll then be unemployed after 10 years service with no redundancy pay. Feels like a kick in the bollocks that I just drop of their radar after 10 years good service. I understand (I think) the reasoning behind it though.

Hey ho. At least my wife, my boy and I are all healthy and with the mortgage break, we can survive for the next 3-4 months and potentially save some more money.

Time to look for a new job or consider starting up my own sports accommodation business.

Life-changing.
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I am very sorry to hear that, best of luck.

These schemes are a minefield.
 
clint van damme

clint van damme

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Ring Of Steel said:
I am very sorry to hear that, best of luck.

These schemes are a minefield.
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I've been furloughed and it seems fairly straight forward to be honest
Couple of caveats but nothing to worry about. My work are also going to pay me 80 percent of my wage and ignore the limit so I'm pretty happy with it given the circumstances
 
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Skyblueweeman said:
Just found out they've extended my contract until the end of June so I get 3 months furlough pay. I'll then be unemployed after 10 years service with no redundancy pay. Feels like a kick in the bollocks that I just drop of their radar after 10 years good service. I understand (I think) the reasoning behind it though.

Hey ho. At least my wife, my boy and I are all healthy and with the mortgage break, we can survive for the next 3-4 months and potentially save some more money.

Time to look for a new job or consider starting up my own sports accommodation business.

Life-changing.
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Ouch! A like doesn't seem quite fair...

Any chance at all they'll extend beyond June? Or if things get back to normal, you get to put in place the plan you hoped they'd do before all this kicked off?
 
Ring Of Steel

Ring Of Steel

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clint van damme said:
I've been furloughed and it seems fairly straight forward to be honest
Couple of caveats but nothing to worry about. My work are also going to pay me 80 percent of my wage and ignore the limit so I'm pretty happy with it given the circumstances
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The govt are having to change the rules on the the loans, too many loopholes and its not working. Furlough is ok for the furloughed, but for the employer its risky & nobody yet knows how it will work practically as the application portal is delayed. HMRC will be auditing all applications and if they see anyone even as much as opening a work related email while on furlough they'll claim the whole grant back. Loads of admin in there too, very messy.

But like I said- would normally take a year to get this done and they have 3 weeks. And the fact that its straightforward for the employee is undoubtedly the most important part.
 
clint van damme

clint van damme

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Ring Of Steel said:
The govt are having to change the rules on the the loans, too many loopholes and its not working. Furlough is ok for the furloughed, but for the employer its risky & nobody yet knows how it will work practically as the application portal is delayed. HMRC will be auditing all applications and if they see anyone even as much as opening a work related email while on furlough they'll claim the whole grant back. Loads of admin in there too, very messy.

But like I said- would normally take a year to get this done and they have 3 weeks. And the fact that its straightforward for the employee is undoubtedly the most important part.
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That's one of the caveats, I can't work in Amy capacity.
It's complicated things a bit for me because I was supposed to be on holiday from next week but I was supposed to be in for part of the holiday to help move a production.li e to another plant but HR have said I can't get involved.
Oh well, I'm.losing my job later in the year anyway so fuck em!!
 
covmark

covmark

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Skyblueweeman said:
Just found out they've extended my contract until the end of June so I get 3 months furlough pay. I'll then be unemployed after 10 years service with no redundancy pay. Feels like a kick in the bollocks that I just drop of their radar after 10 years good service. I understand (I think) the reasoning behind it though.

Hey ho. At least my wife, my boy and I are all healthy and with the mortgage break, we can survive for the next 3-4 months and potentially save some more money.

Time to look for a new job or consider starting up my own sports accommodation business.

Life-changing.
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All the best to you mate.

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SkyBlueCRJ

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Ring Of Steel said:
The govt are having to change the rules on the the loans, too many loopholes and its not working. Furlough is ok for the furloughed, but for the employer its risky & nobody yet knows how it will work practically as the application portal is delayed. HMRC will be auditing all applications and if they see anyone even as much as opening a work related email while on furlough they'll claim the whole grant back. Loads of admin in there too, very messy.

But like I said- would normally take a year to get this done and they have 3 weeks. And the fact that its straightforward for the employee is undoubtedly the most important part.
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How will they know if you've opened a work related email? Surely they'd have to have access to a company server to do that which as you said would be physically impossible given the time frame and the amount of companies that will be furloughing their staff. Realistically that's nothing more than a scare tactic if true.
 
Skyblueweeman

Skyblueweeman

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Deleted member 5849 said:
Ouch! A like doesn't seem quite fair...

Any chance at all they'll extend beyond June? Or if things get back to normal, you get to put in place the plan you hoped they'd do before all this kicked off?
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Thanks gents and thanks NW.

My boss has said that we'll stay in touch and have scheduled a call once a month to check on updates. I can't assume there'll be a position for me in July though...whilst I know for a fact that there's about 3 positions from 60 in our greater team that are currently in need of filling (which I could do for all 3), I'm not sure if the structure in July will look like what it did in January.

I need to have income though post July so I'll put some feelers out on LinkedIn from next week asking about opportunities from July onwards and start a feasibility study into whether I could fly solo in the same industry (ie Sports accommodation).

Trying to be upbeat and think that everything happens for a reason. Just a bitter pill to swallow that I get no redundancy or any decent send off after 10 good years service, due a sh!t siutation. Like I said though...others in much worse situations than I though.
 
clint van damme

clint van damme

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Skyblueweeman said:
Thanks gents and thanks NW.

My boss has said that we'll stay in touch and have scheduled a call once a month to check on updates. I can't assume there'll be a position for me in July though...whilst I know for a fact that there's about 3 positions from 60 in our greater team that are currently in need of filling (which I could do for all 3), I'm not sure if the structure in July will look like what it did in January.

I need to have income though post July so I'll put some feelers out on LinkedIn from next week asking about opportunities from July onwards and start a feasibility study into whether I could fly solo in the same industry (ie Sports accommodation).

Trying to be upbeat and think that everything happens for a reason. Just a bitter pill to swallow that I get no redundancy or any decent send off after 10 good years service, due a sh!t siutation. Like I said though...others in much worse situations than I though.
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Why don't you get redundancy?
 
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djr8369

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I see the line on testing has gone from being essentially "WHO advice doesn't apply to us" to "testing is our top priority" after even the tory press gave them a hard time. The strategy of this government is being dictated by the press and private companies. A pathetic lack of leadership. They are still in election mode, just focus of refuting what the last bit of criticism was.
 
fernandopartridge

fernandopartridge

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Skyblueweeman said:
Just found out they've extended my contract until the end of June so I get 3 months furlough pay. I'll then be unemployed after 10 years service with no redundancy pay. Feels like a kick in the bollocks that I just drop of their radar after 10 years good service. I understand (I think) the reasoning behind it though.

Hey ho. At least my wife, my boy and I are all healthy and with the mortgage break, we can survive for the next 3-4 months and potentially save some more money.

Time to look for a new job or consider starting up my own sports accommodation business.

Life-changing.
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All the best weeman. Were you not permanent in the job there?
 
Ring Of Steel

Ring Of Steel

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djr8369 said:
I see the line on testing has gone from being essentially "WHO advice doesn't apply to us" to "testing is our top priority" after even the tory press gave them a hard time. The strategy of this government is being dictated by the press and private companies. A pathetic lack of leadership. They are still in election mode, just focus of refuting what the last bit of criticism was.
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first one I’ve watched- jesus they’re hopeless
 
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