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Can you still stay home to look after children if work reopens - your legal rights

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The government has said that people who can't do their jobs from home should start heading back to work this week - but what does that mean for parents?

With schools still closed, can they make you return to the day job if there's no one else able to look after your children thanks to lockdown?

The good news is that not having childcare is a perfectly valid reason to be put on furlough, the bad news is that it's up to employers to do it.

This means that bosses have the power to choose who can, and can't, stay on furlough when things reopen - rather than employees having the power to choose for themselves.

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