End of Furlough

[mamabird201313]

So I work in a restaurant and we reopened on Saturday 4th July. I've been furloughed since lockdown first began. Nothing was mentioned to us about when our furlough would end/employment would begin again so we all just presumed that we'd be furloughed until Friday 3rd July, then start getting our hourly pay for any hours worked from 4th July.

I've just had my payslip for this week and all I'm being paid for is the 6 hours I worked over the weekend (4th/5th July). This would normally be absolutely fine, except I spent 3 more days in the restaurant last week for H&S meetings, new menu tasting/training and I went in to help do a deep clean one of the days. Normally we'd get paid for any training days/meetings but we haven't been.

So according to my payslip my furlough must've ended 28th July and then from week commencing 29th July I've basically spent 18 hours on site but only been paid for 6 of those. I'm obviously really grateful to have a job right now so don't want to rock the boat too much but I feel like a bit of a mug working for free for the majority of last week.

*28th June & 29th June

Damnit this year is messing with my head 🤣

I’d be pretty annoyed at that! There’s no way I’d be deep cleaning for free!

@LadyCatStark

I’d be pretty annoyed at that! There’s no way I’d be deep cleaning for free!

Ah thank you! I thought I was being unreasonable but seems I'm not think I'll casually mention it to my boss tomorrow

You can train on furlough so maybe you’ll get a monthly furlough amount at the end of the month? To include any days you haven’t worked on? Not sure about the cleaning though!

@Br1ll1ant knowing my employers they won't do that and they're probably just hoping that nobody will mention it but thank you I'll see what my manager says tomorrow

Perhaps it could be added on as overtime for July if you weren’t paid at all? If you weren’t paid furlough because the claim ended on 29th then your actual pay should reflect the full hours worked. Maybe just mention that there must have been an oversight as the hours you worked that week aren’t reflected in your payslip, they’d have to then say to your face that you were working for nothing (not legal unless you’d agreed to volunteer your time for free!).

@chipsandgin ooh thank you! I feel like an idiot because I should've asked on that first day back whether we were getting paid or if I was still furloughed, but I'll definitely ask because it could just be an oversight like you say

Could be an oversight but I thought that when people come off of furlough that they work what they can (less hours due to business building back up) and then are topped up to 80% from the furlough scheme. That's how I've interpreted it from my boss anyway.
Are you only getting paid for 6 hours work and not the rest of the furlough amount?
As for the missing hours, definitely query it, sounds like something my manager would do. Trying to pull a fast one