Legal Insight: What are you entitled to if you're made redundant on furlough?
Noele McClelland, employment law specialist at Thorntons, said: “As employers move towards having to contribute to the costs of furloughed workers pay, from August onwards there has been an increasing concern that we will now begin to see a rapid increase in the number of redundancies being announced across the country. One issue which is of importance is how any entitlement to redundancy payments will be calculated, for employees who have received 80% of pay whilst on furlough.