01/05/2020
Strange times indeed, when I feel obliged to say a massive thank you to the UK Government.
Like most employers we had no idea what the situation would be, when it came time to claiming the furlough payments from the Gov. We knew we had to pay our team promptly (like always) but we were expecting the process to take an age, probably get knocked back for not filling the forms in correctly, have to start over and then not be paid the full amount....so it came as a huge and extremely welcome surprise that we were paid the claim in full, and in under a week from submission-awesome.
Due to the sacrifices we have all made, I am sure that this situation will start to resolve itself soon, but in the meantime its a massive weight off our minds that we are going to be able to continue the Furlough payments to our team.
So.... Massive thanks to the UK Government from us at SEC-Marine, and for what its worth we think your doing a cracking job.