Furlough: eligibility criteria made clearer for employees made redundant but re-hired

The government’s latest guidance makes the eligibility criteria clearer for those employees made redundant but re-hired.

“For claim periods after 1 November 2020

If you made employees redundant, or they stopped working for you on or after 23 September 2020 you can re-employ them and put them on furlough. This applies as long as the employee was employed by you on September 23 and you made a PAYE RTI submission to HMRC between 20 March 2020 and 30 October 2020, notifying a payment of earnings for that employee”.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/check-which-employees-you-can-put-on-furlough-to-use-the-coronavirus-job-retention-scheme?utm_source=31fd460d-cdbe-4fda-8c9e-830b0f5af865&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&utm_content=immediate#if-youve-made-your-employees-redundant