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The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) was a furlough scheme announced by Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on 20 March 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom. [1] The scheme was announced as providing grants to employers to pay 80% of a staff wage and employment costs each month, up to a total of £2,500 per ...
In July 2020 the government pledged £1.57 billion for the arts, culture and heritage industries in the UK. [235] At the end of July a £500 million Film and TV Production Restart Scheme was announced, with the intention of providing COVID insurance so that production companies could start making programmes again. It was available for any ...
The 16-day shutdown had considerable impact upon the United States: approximately 800,000 federal employees were put on furlough, while an additional 1.3 million had to report to work without any known payment dates during this period, [38] costing the government millions in back pay; [75] major government programmes concerning Native Americans ...
The Office for National Statistics said payrolled workers jumped by 160,000 between September and October to 29.3 million.
Bank of America suggested the scheme should be extended until December, while Make UK and the Federation of Small Businesses also called for an extension. Coronavirus: Pressure growing on ...
While the number of people furloughed will carry on falling as the economy continues to reopen, it is likely that many will still be affected by the scheme ending.
The government announced a series of measures to protect companies, and the jobs of employees whose firms were required to close as part of lockdown, including a furlough scheme that would see the government pay 80% of the wages of workers who were furloughed. The scheme was initially to run until the end of June, but later extended twice and ...
One in twenty private-sector employees in Britain returned to work from furlough in the past two weeks, according to official figures on Thursday that suggest a gradual reopening of the economy is ...