bring back staff part time whilst on furlough

[AnonyMouse_50818]

Hi everyone!!

I have remained closed since March and re-opening in 3 weeks time. 

I am looking at bringing half my staff back part time due to low numbers and have read that the Government will help to pay the hours I can't up to 80%. 

 I cannot find any detailed information on the Gov website regarding the way we pay these staff. Would i pay my staff only 80% of wages? 

For example if  staff member work 30 hours normally with a wage of £1140 a month. I give them 15 hours work and pay £570 and i claim 80% of the other £570 from government = £456

so staff member gets £570+£456=£1026.  This is £114 less.

Now this is where it gets complicated:

As we receive funding form the government We only normally receive 29%  furlough of our income from funding and private paying, which it reduced by the 80%. Does this mean i can only claim 29% of the 15 hours they don't work each week  so can only claim back £165.29? 

This would mean the member of staff would only receive £570 + £165.29=£735.29p 😶 do i then have to top this80% of their wages  or 100%???????????????????????

 

This has not been made clear for Early years at all. 

 

 

 

Are we using income from April 2019 again adding it to what funding we receive 

Edited August 15, 2020 by nomski100