Scottish workers face “bleak Christmas” without furlough, warns Leonard
Richard Leonard has warned that the end of the UK government job retention scheme on Saturday will leave…
Job support scheme
30 Labour MPs urge Sunak to put minimum wage floor in job support
A group of 30 Labour MPs have written to Chancellor Rishi Sunak today to urge the government to…
Labour: Half a million self-employed people “left in the lurch” by government
Labour has accused the government of “leaving self-employed people in the lurch” as changes to the self-employment income…
Trickle-down Covid support: Sunak’s statement for business
Rishi Sunak this morning outlined an updated package of support for businesses in the Covid crisis. The backlash…
Sunak support schemes will save only 230,000 jobs, new research finds
New research has found that only 230,000 jobs will be saved by the Chancellor’s new job support schemes…
Sunak U-turns on furlough – but there are many holes in his new plan
Rishi Sunak made the entirely predictable U-turn today of resuming a form of furlough, after repeatedly claiming that…
Government must adopt local furlough approach to save jobs, says TUC
The TUC has called on the government to adopt a new approach to prevent mass unemployment in the…
The new job scheme is far inferior to furlough. We need a people’s bailout
The Chancellor’s winter economy plan essentially announced a mass cull of jobs that it deemed “non-viable” while imposing…
The self-employed have been abandoned during the coronavirus crisis
While the pandemic has hit all parts of the economy hard, the self-employed have been particularly badly affected.…
Half of all hospitality jobs could be at risk under new support scheme, says Labour
Labour has warned of a bleak Christmas for the hospitality sector because the Chancellor’s new job support scheme…
