Decision details

COVID-19 Surrey County Council Response to Covid - Furlough payments

Decision Maker: Chief Executive

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: No

Purpose:

The Council is responding to the Covid-19 major incident and therefore needs to make urgent decisions to ensure that residents are protected. Urgent decisions taken at the above named meeting are listed below with reasons.

 

Decision:

It was AGREED that:

 

  1. Where roles cannot be done from home, involve non-essential services that cannot be delivered following social distancing, or staff are unable to fulfil their contractual hours due to dependent commitments, we will continue to pay employees unable to do their job based on their normal rate of pay and hours of work as set out in their terms and conditions of employment, effective from 23rd March 2020.

 

Urgent item?: Yes

Publication date: 14/04/2020

Date of decision: 08/04/2020