LAWYERS: Trainee Solicitor on furlough + PSC

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I am a trainee solicitor on furlough leave and due to start the Professional Skills Course in June. Does my employer have to top up my pay to 100%?

If I was working, I would have been on paid study leave for the course.

Thanks.

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I'm a solicitor (newly qualified), but in Scotland. Not entirely sure what the PSC is, I assume the equivalent to our diploma in professional legal practice? If so, I'd say they don't have to top it up, no requirement for apprentices to be paid in full and I'd assume parallels could be drawn.

Phone the law society to check? The Law Soc of Scotland have a confidential helpline you can use, so you could do so without naming you/your employer!

Yes they sound like the same thing. I called the Law Society and they didn't know... :S

Paid study leave would be equivalent to your normal salary in normal circumstances so in these circumstances 80% same as furlough would seem appropriate.

As long as you are receiving national living wage when being paid 80% of your salary, they do not have to top up to your full salary.

I probably am receiving national living wage

I know you have tried the Law Society, but have you contacted someone in the JLD specifically? As their remit is junior lawyers they might have more information. But as another poster said, I imagine you will be paid as you currently are. I can’t see that there is any distinction between salary and study leave for the purpose of calculating furlough pay.

Also remember that training is allowed whilst on furlough which suggests you will be paid at the 80% rate or whatever rate the firm has agreed to pay you as many firm a are topping up.