Covid: Employers can put self-isolating staff on furlough
The Treasury was “reluctant” to say the scheme could be used this way, emails from a civil servant suggest. …
Statutory sick pay requires employers to pay at least £96.35 per week when staff are off sick for more than four days, whereas the furlough scheme, also known as the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, pays 80% of an employee’s normal wages up to £2,500 per month.
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