Coronavirus: Your workplace questions

I will start it off then :)

We have 27 people that we hired after the 28th of feb so they wouldnt be on our payroll until the 29th of March as we are a monthly payer, We had to furlough on the 25th unable to claim for these people. The gov site has been updated yesterday to say the following:

If your employee is on unpaid leave
Employees on unpaid leave cannot be furloughed, unless they were placed on unpaid leave after 28 February.

I dont get this one because it also says:

Employees hired after 28 February 2020 cannot be furloughed or claimed for in accordance with this scheme.

I would appreciate if anyone in the community has a better understanding of this. We want to try and get these people a source of finance without having to make them redundant.

I have a similar position having taken someone on early March who wont be paid until the end of March. What do I do with this person?

Also, ....

www.makeuk.org/.../covid19-faqs-17032020

looks to be very comprehensive guidance from an impeccable source

Hi Anwen, I am in a similar position and have paid the employee (who worked for one week only and started on 16th March) up to end of March. They then received a letter to state they had to self isolate. I have been given conflicting advice. One person is saying that the employee should be paid SSP going forward but our payroll company is saying we can't pay SSP because they are not sick. Regards, Julie

Hi Anwen, I am in a similar position and have paid the employee (who worked for one week only and started on 16th March) up to end of March. They then received a letter to state they had to self isolate. I have been given conflicting advice. One person is saying that the employee should be paid SSP going forward but our payroll company is saying we can't pay SSP because they are not sick. Regards, Julie