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Money Box

The end of furlough

Money Box

BBC

Business

4.2804 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

As the government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme wraps up, what are your redundancy rights? And what happens if you’re on a zero-hours contract?

Gym members are being pursued by debt collectors after they cancelled their direct debit for fees to gyms they couldn't go to because of the pandemic.

And why are banks refusing to open accounts for newly formed charities and community groups?

Presenter: Paul Lewis Researcher: Darin Graham Reporter: Kafui Okpattah Producer: Simon Maybin Editor: Richard Vadon

Transcript

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0:46.4

Hello, some virgin active gym members are being pursued by debt collectors after they cancelled their direct debits for fees to gyms they couldn't attend because of the pandemic.

0:52.5

And why are banks refusing to open accounts for newly

0:55.1

formed charities and community groups? But first, farewell, furlough. The government's coronavirus

1:01.8

job retention scheme ends today, October the 31st. From tomorrow, it's replaced by the

1:07.2

job support scheme, which comes in two flavours, depending which tier or level of restriction,

1:12.9

applies in the area where the business is located. Now, of course, there's the prospect of further

1:17.7

restrictions on us being announced, and if the Chancellor doesn't give businesses more support,

1:22.6

there is a real possibility of hundreds of thousands of redundancies before Christmas.

1:34.3

Susan Raftery is a senior advisor at ACAS, which provides independent advice on workplace rights. Susan Rafferite, are you seeing growing numbers of people worried about redundancy coming to you?

1:39.3

Yes, we are, Paul. We've actually, on our helpline, realised that between June and October this year, we've had 40,000 more calls about redundancy, and that's from both employers and employees.

1:53.8

But what sort of rise is that?

1:57.0

It's about doubled. It's about doubled, it's about doubled on year on year from last year.

2:01.6

Wow. And how does somebody qualify for redundancy? Somebody's in work, they're threatened with redundancy. What can they get?

2:07.6

They need to have been employed for two years, and provided they've been employed for two years,

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