Expecting employers to pay up to 40% of furloughed staff wages will result in a second wave of massive job losses, says shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds
The job retention or furlough scheme, created by the government, business representatives and trade unions working together, has had no parallel in UK history. It has kept six million people in work, and backfilled seven and a half million jobs. Without it, one in three businesses say they would have had to lay off staff; and many workers would have felt compelled to try to continue to work, despite public health guidance requiring them not to.
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