For example. A company's working week is Monday to Friday. The employees are paid on the Friday of that same week for work done in that week. All the employees are on furlough until 20th July when they return to work. Normally that week they would be paid on Friday 24th July for work done or furlough if on flexible furlough. To move the payroll to a lying week basis can one complete week's furlough be paid for week ending 24th July (and reclaimed) and then the following week, ending 31st July, employees paid for actual hours worked or flexibly furloughed during the previous week ending 24th July and furlough reclaimed? I'm not sure it can be done as it seems like a double furlough reclaim but having difficulty reaching a conclusing over discussions on this one. Thanks
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If you change how you pay your staff it has very little relevance to what you can reclaim under the furlough scheme.
Reading the above, you would be over claiming, so the answer is no.
If lying week means week in hand then I agree
CJRS is based on payments made.
Current wages appear to be impossible to calculate until Friday evening, or am I missing something?
EDIT
looks like lots of Scots websites use the term "Lying week"
You missed out the one that's actually correct. Furlough is based on the period you are paid. Not the period you have worked. And not the payment date.
Irrespective of furlough, I do hope that you have agreed this change of contract with employees, and have not unilaterally imposed it.
This seems to keep coming back to double furlough claim. Is that the sole reason for the discussions?
Ignoring furlough - why not move to monthly?
I have done this for various settings, and (if done well) employees almost always appreciate it.
Agree completely
now down to just 2 weeklies
Issue is often that some trades prefer to use their cash up on wages, because it saves bank charges