Flexible Furlough Factsheet

A high level guide to the changes to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme

You can download a copy of this factsheet here.

In this Factsheet, we've referred to the amended scheme starting from 1 July 2020 as the "flexible furlough scheme". You do not necessarily need to be "flexibly" furloughing your staff under the amended scheme. You can still ask staff to remain on "full-time" furlough under the flexible furlough scheme – but, as is known, the level of payments that can be claimed from the government will gradually change in respect of the period after 31 July (see heading "calculation and claim limits" below). We have referred to the current scheme (i.e. that which is open for claims from 1 March to 30 June) as the "previous scheme".