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Think he's looking at the business interruption scheme. Business are being signposted to that as the job retention scheme "systems are not set up to facilitate payments to employers". The detail that seems to be missing is if when the system is up and running payments will be backdated. Would...

Trying to get that sorted but there doesn't seem to me much detail on how to get them on it. Bit annoying as they're Sainsburys regulars so they have all their details (and by regulars I mean they go at the same time every week and buy the same things!). That would be best and then with a bit...

In short the system isn't set up yet. But it looks like your employer keeps paying you but designates you furloughed so you don't actually work. Reading it sounds like you get all your salary but the employer can claim 80% from the government but I might be misunderstanding that. Edit: to...

Anyone tried the supermarkets today? My parents are nearly out of food and in the high risk category so I'll have to go shopping for them tomorrow. Hope it has calmed down a bit. Already know if I don't get exactly what's on my Mums list she'll complain!

What do you do, are you totally screwed until the lockdown is over?

The resistance to home working is ridiculous. Quite often seems to come from senior managers who funnily enough work from home themselves, think that says a lot about how productive they are when not in the office. I work in an office on my own, just need a laptop, yet have to commute nearly...

Funnily enough doesn't seem to be any mention of it in the Telegraph.

Wonder how they came up with 80%, seems a bit random. Do they reckon that's the cost of going to work?

Same here. Not a huge difference for me as I'm the only one based in the Midlands. Just saves me sitting in traffic every day to get to the office which for unknown reasons they decided should be in Blythe Valley. Only real difference is no site visits but they weren't that frequent anyway...

Wonder how you get registered as vulnerable? My parents would both come under that and used to have a weekly Sainsbury's shop before all this started but can't get anything booked in now. Means tomorrow I'm going to have to try and do their shopping for them which I'm not looking forward to.

I think that's only if you're furloughed. The idea is you're still an employee of the company ready to come back to work when this is all over but in the meantime the company only has to pay 20% of you wage. Seems to be some huge flaws, obviously self employed miss out, anyone who is sacked or...

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There's definitely questions that need to be answered when this is all over. Hopefully it won't just be a shrug of the shoulders and 'nothing we could do'. Seen this floating around on twitter today: https://chpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/CHPI-report-GettingBehindCurve-Dec-2013.pdf It's...

Nothing has changed has it. Still people packed into trains and tubes, still queues at supermarkets. I'm sat at home working and can see loads of people walking / driving past. Sure they aren't all going somewhere essential or using their daily exercise allowance. Don't think Gove helped this...

I'm in IT as well and it seems very vague. Our clients include healthcare providers and food manufacturers which would be classed as essential. But does it really then follow that the whole company is required. How essential is it to have sales in for example? Fortunately I can work entirely...

Depends who those people were going to vote for. There have been some claims, although we may well be in tin foil hat territory, that Republican and swing states are receiving a much greater percentage of requested emergency medical supplies than democrat states. Not sure I believe that...

He's more concerned about the impact on his chances of winning the election than how many people die.

Not a clue, its not clear on the government site, "HMRC will reimburse 80% of furloughed workers wage costs".

Good time to be trying to build another hotel.