Modular construction firm Darwin Group has refunded more than £130,000 in furlough payments to HMRC.
The Shropshire-based firm made the decision to furlough some of its construction team at the start of the UK’s lockdown to remain in line with the government’s home working directives, as a percentage of its employees could not carry out their work.
Use of the Chancellor’s job retention scheme meant that eight construction workers could be retained throughout the pandemic. They have all since returned to work at the company’s Shawbury headquarters near Shrewsbury.
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