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Hi Brian Welcome to the forum The rules are that you should not be working, however, our business is quite different from any other type of business in the respect that we are contracted to customers to respond. This means if we do not respond we are in breach of that contract and they will probably go to a company that will respond, and there will be plenty of those out there. So if we employ engineers that are furloughed we are breaking the law, but if we furlough the engineers and ignore the contracted customers there may not be a job for all the engineers to come back to because contract will be lost. So the employer either has to pay the wages with very little coming in, and trust me the money will run out eventually. He needs more than one engineer working because of working hour laws, that would mean he could not make up the 100% wage to the ones he has furloughed. The other alternative is that he continues to employ everyone on reduced hours and with six engineers you would be lucky if you got two or three days a week and you will end up with 40/50% of your current wage max. Personally I think the government have just tried to cover themselves, they dont want people claiming but just working less hours because there is less work about . They could not know how every industry works, there are millions of scenarios that are different. Your employer may not be aware of the rules, if you are unhappy about the situation you need to speak with your employer and let him know he is breaking the law. Questions I would yourself ask are Is the employer paying you 100% or just the 80% the government is offering. Do you like your employer is he fair and does he look after everyone, especially times like these when he already has enough shz to worry about Do you feel that you are part of a team and that you do not want to let anyone down.