UK to extend recent redundancy consultations and give furlough to staff affected

The government have extended furlough and offered this to those recently made redundant. Instead it should be mandatory that consultations are extended during November and furlough offered.

This is due to business change for second lockdown and the previous consultations being void economically

We understand that you are concerned about people who have been or being made redundant as a result of Covid-19, but it's not clear exactly what you want the Government to do about this.

It is up to individual businesses, not the Government, to decide whether to reemploy staff that have previously been made redundant, although the Government does set rules on processes employers must follow to make staff redundant. Similarly, it is up to individual businesses, not the Government, to decide when to use the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.

We could accept a petition calling on the Government to extend minimum consultation periods for redundancy during the pandemic, or to provide financial support equivalent to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme for workers who have been made redundant.

We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:

Make Companies who make furloughed employees redundant pay them a retraining fee: Make Companies who make furloughed employees redundant pay them a retraining fee

Businesses to repay furlough if subsequently making redundancies: Businesses to repay furlough if subsequently making redundancies

Prevent companies making employees redundant or laying them off due to COVID-19: Prevent companies making employees redundant or laying them off due to COVID-19