Furloughed workers to receive full redundancy payments under new law brought in today
manchestereveningnews.co.ukhereMost businesses have done so but there are a minority who have not, Business Secretary Alok Sharma said.Mr Sharma added: “The government is doing everything it can to protect people’s livelihoods and we are supporting more than nine million jobs through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.“We urge employers to do everything they can to avoid making redundancies, but where this is unavoidable it is important that employees receive the payments they are rightly entitled to.“New laws will ensure furloughed employees are not short-changed and are paid their full redundancy pay entitlement – providing some reassurance in an undeniably testing time.”Other changes coming into force will ensure basic awards for unfair dismissal cases are based.
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