Reducing hours while on flexible fuelough

[AHPforthe123]

Apologies if this isn’t in the right place. I’ve done some reading but haven’t come up with a clear answer.

My DH has been on flexible furlough. He typically was working 3 days and 1-2 days furlough. He’s on a zero hours contract.

They reduced his hours from 8-4:30 to 8-3:30 and have now reduced them again to 8-2.

It’s a 1.5 hours round trip commute.

Can his work keep doing this? I totally understand the financial situation his employer is in and that many people are facing unemployment. I’m about to go down to SMP on maternity leave and trying to budget our finances.

Any help appreciated.

A zero hours contract is exactly that. They can choose what hours to give to him to work each week either less or more than the week before.

If he’s on flexible furlough with a zero hours contract they should be basing it on his average hours/average pay last year. So if they are basing it on a ‘normal hours’ of, say, 25 hours a week, then he should get paid as normal for hours he works, and receive 80% for the rest.

@flowery thanks for this. That is what I was trying to explain to my husband.