I've been well looked after by work. Given we work with vulnerable kids, we have worked right through since March, either from home or at our centre. At the minute I'm in work, for as long as schools stay open. If we have to work from home we have everything in place ready, we know what to do.
The Mrs had worked full time for Mazda while doing a second job in our local pub restaurant. The latter have chased her for a while to be their assistant manager, since last year in fact. She finally took the plunge in September, it wasn't great timing but it made sense due to logistics.
She was furloughed by the pub in March and as she was only working one day a week, she didn't get much but it was enough to top up what we already have and furlough more or less replaced that wage.
The pub has just closed again this week, so she is now back on furlough. The issue now being that they base your pay on 2019/2020 pay. So they are basing her furlough pay on working for 5-6 hours a week, as opposed to her new full time contract. She's asked for some discretion and help from her employer but they are following the guidelines to a tee and won't budge on it. So we've basically lost a full time wage. We can't even get temporary help from Universal Credit (not that we want to go down that route anyway), as they base it on previous earnings and with my wage we wouldn't be eligible anyway.
Any ideas? She has had no support from her manager or her area manager, they referred to her HR who said in not so many words that they have 10k staff to deal with and are sorry their answer isn't the one we are looking for. She's now looking for another job despite the fact she could be back working there in December (fuck knows what will happen).
The Government are cunts but some employers are utter cunts too, the only way this makes a difference to them is that they have committed to topping up people's pay to 100%, and 20% of a full wage is obviously more than that of a part time wage.
The Mrs had worked full time for Mazda while doing a second job in our local pub restaurant. The latter have chased her for a while to be their assistant manager, since last year in fact. She finally took the plunge in September, it wasn't great timing but it made sense due to logistics.
She was furloughed by the pub in March and as she was only working one day a week, she didn't get much but it was enough to top up what we already have and furlough more or less replaced that wage.
The pub has just closed again this week, so she is now back on furlough. The issue now being that they base your pay on 2019/2020 pay. So they are basing her furlough pay on working for 5-6 hours a week, as opposed to her new full time contract. She's asked for some discretion and help from her employer but they are following the guidelines to a tee and won't budge on it. So we've basically lost a full time wage. We can't even get temporary help from Universal Credit (not that we want to go down that route anyway), as they base it on previous earnings and with my wage we wouldn't be eligible anyway.
Any ideas? She has had no support from her manager or her area manager, they referred to her HR who said in not so many words that they have 10k staff to deal with and are sorry their answer isn't the one we are looking for. She's now looking for another job despite the fact she could be back working there in December (fuck knows what will happen).
The Government are cunts but some employers are utter cunts too, the only way this makes a difference to them is that they have committed to topping up people's pay to 100%, and 20% of a full wage is obviously more than that of a part time wage.
