20th April 2020
It has now been just over a month since the Government announced that it would be launching its Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (“the CJRS”), which introduced the concept of “furlough” to assist those who had been laid off or made redundant, or faced the threat of such action, due to the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on businesses. Since then the details of the scheme have been provided by way of HMRC’s guidance, albeit having been published in fits and starts, and still containing a few ambiguities and gaps.