Assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions HENRY FOWLER reports on day 1 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at Quorn Grange Hotel
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THE government’s recently announced Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme was met with widespread approval.
According to the government website, “all UK employers with a PAYE scheme will be able to access support to continue paying part of their employees’ salary for those that would otherwise have been laid off during this crisis.”
It is further explained that the scheme is to apply to “all employees who have been asked to stop working, but who are being kept on the payroll, otherwise described as ‘furloughed workers’.”
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