Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a series of unprecedented measures to help fight the coronavirus crisis. The government has announced it will help pay people’s wages with all employers able to apply to HMRC to pay the wages of people who are furloughed. “Employers will be able to contact HMRC for a grant to cover most of the wages of people who are not working but are furloughed and kept on payroll rather than being laid off," Mr Sunak said.

But what does furlough mean? The definition of furlough is to allow or force someone to be absent temporarily from work. In this case that means anyone asked to stop working during the coronavirus pandemic but not made redundant.

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