CCFC puts players and staff on Furlough (1 Viewer)

shepardo01

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NEWS: Operational Update from Chief Executive Dave Boddy

All of the players and a number of full-time staff will be ‘Furloughed’ under the Government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.
Well done to the club for paying the additional 20% and for stating they are doing so!
It's not obligatory to do that and it doesn't appear that our friends at Wasps are doing that for their staff.
Wonder how the Telegraph will report this!?
 

chiefdave

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NEWS: Operational Update from Chief Executive Dave Boddy

All of the players and a number of full-time staff will be ‘Furloughed’ under the Government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.
Fair enough. If there's no work to do then no need for them to be working. Also worth highlighting the club are paying the 20% the government isn't paying so all staff will get their full salary.

Not sure furloughing is going to work out like the government expected. There's an article on the BBC site that says the Treasury expectation was for 10% of private companies to make use of the scheme but polling results give 44% of companies saying they will furlough at least half of their employees.
 

Marty

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Fair enough. If there's no work to do then no need for them to be working. Also worth highlighting the club are paying the 20% the government isn't paying so all staff will get their full salary.

Not sure furloughing is going to work out like the government expected. There's an article on the BBC site that says the Treasury expectation was for 10% of private companies to make use of the scheme but polling results give 44% of companies saying they will furlough at least half of their employees.

Time to start taxing the likes of Starbucks properly and getting zero hour workers onto proper contracts or ban those companies from trading in the UK.
 

no_loyalty

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Brilliant from the club, and puts those in the prem (Spurs and Newcastle that i have heard of) to shame!

You wouldn't mind if they donated 20% of their salary to the NHS, or other worthy causes.
 

bradwellskyblues

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just a thought does this make games behind close doors very unlikely as with no revenue coming in how could teams pay players who would be working
 

chiefdave

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just a thought does this make games behind close doors very unlikely as with no revenue coming in how could teams pay players who would be working
Assume they would hope to offset lost ticket revenue by opening up ifollow to domestic viewers and / or extra tv payments to allow more games to be shown.
 

Nick

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I didn't think people could work on furlough?

Surely they can't see anything happening in the near future as they will just need to take them off again.
 

mark82

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I didn't think people could work on furlough?

Surely they can't see anything happening in the near future as they will just need to take them off again.

They can't work. Think it's a minimum of 3 weeks furlough, but might be wrong.
 

chiefdave

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I didn't think people could work on furlough?
Player have probably been sent home with instructions for training alone as they would be at the end of the season to keep their fitness up.

Most of the office staff will have nothing to do, not like we can even push season tickets for next year as we didn't have them on sale anyway and don't know what division we'll be in. If you take out the players, coaches, physios etc the club probably doesn't have that many staff.
 

Sbarcher

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They can't work. Think it's a minimum of 3 weeks furlough, but might be wrong.
Definitely no work for your employer. Also, capped at £2500/month so some of the players will lose a chunk of wages. Mind you, the £2500 isn't too shabby.
 

Nick

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Player have probably been sent home with instructions for training alone as they would be at the end of the season to keep their fitness up.

Most of the office staff will have nothing to do, not like we can even push season tickets for next year as we didn't have them on sale anyway and don't know what division we'll be in. If you take out the players, coaches, physios etc the club probably doesn't have that many staff.

Yeah I just meant if there was an announcement that they were needed to play again then everybody would need to be taken off again and back into training etc so it doesn't look good in the way of games being played.
 

Nick

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Definitely no work for your employer. Also, capped at £2500/month so some of the players will lose a chunk of wages. Mind you, the £2500 isn't too shabby.

It says the players won't be out of pocket so assume it's being covered?
 

chiefdave

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Yeah I just meant if there was an announcement that they were needed to play again then everybody would need to be taken off again and back into training etc so it doesn't look good in the way of games being played.
It's a minimum of three weeks so presumably they've been told nothing is happening anytime soon and the players won't need to be back in training this month.
 

Nick

Administrator
Article in the Telegraph about it, you can really see the difference between when it's CCFC covering the additional and when it's Wasps by the spin in the articles.

CCFC - Copy and paste of the article
Wasps - EXCLUSIVE, WASPS WONT CUT JOBS!

No credit at all. Cunts.
 

ccfcricoh

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April was already written off though wasnt it so dont think the 3 weeks issue tells us anything new about further delays...

Although fully expecting a further delay anyway. Wimbledon being cancelled in June says a lot about what sport may happen soon.
 

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