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As a large business with all the publicity that comes with that, he’d be jumped on I hope by the media and government. I’d put sly O’Leary and Ryanair in that category. He tried every trick in the book not to give pilots a market salary a couple of years back ... time for him to oust the...

It is that simple. They can retain all their staff on 80% pay, at absolutely zero cost to the business. No one’s saying that overnight in 6, 12 or 18 months time, businesses will be as they were. There is no benefit whatsoever from dismissing staff at this moment. Those decisions can be made...

There are definitely some small business owners who’ll furtively use this to settle old scores .... I’ve personally known the type!

Not answering your social security question, but any business laying off staff now is either run by dimwits or callous opportunists looking to get rid of people the bosses didn’t like. It now costs them zero to retain staff on 80% pay.

I would imagine and hope that businesses can now, for now, retain all their staff and pay up to 100% pay. They’ve now got colossal savings in rates (nil), wages (nil), corporation tax deferred, VAT (deferred a year and it was never their money anyway ... they take it from customers on top of...

The reason I ask is that if you’re still employed, immediately your employer will have to pay you at least 80% gross pay (financed by the government paying them). Up to £2,500 a month. If you had left and received a P45, you’d be in an entirely different scenario. Edit - since seen your posts...

Closed forever or just temporarily for now? Are you still employed by them, but with nil pay?