If you were the owner of a League 2 football club, would you decide to pay all the staff out of your own pocket or choose to do what tens of thousands of other businesses, including all other EFL clubs, are doing and claim the furlough payment made available by the government?Daz":1iljemw7 said:Kersie":1iljemw7 said:It sounds like to me that if you put staff on furlough it doesn’t mean the club is skint of money at all...it protects the club from becoming skint...so the club still has plenty of money to do things like this...
Again that's fair enough and not against the rules (although its a job retention scheme so should be used to stop having to make staff redundant), it just doesn't sit right with me though. Just like with Branson/Levy/Beckham etc etc.
If our owner decided to pay all staff without claiming furlough, he would be putting our club at a disadvantage to those who are claiming. He is already making up the difference between the furloughed amount and normal pay up to 30th June.