Britain needs to start tapering its COVID furlough scheme - minister


Reuters | London | Updated: 29-05-2020 12:19 IST | Created: 29-05-2020 11:51 IST
Britain needs to start tapering its COVID furlough scheme - minister
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Britain cannot run its COVID-19 jobs protection scheme indefinitely and needs to start tapering it down as people slowly return to work, environment minister George Eustice said on Friday.

"The furlough scheme has been incredibly important in terms of keeping people on standby and ready to return to work," he told Sky News. "Clearly as we start to emerg+e from the lockdown and start to get our economy back to work, we can't keep people on that furlough scheme indefinitely."

"We need to start identifying ways of moving them off the furlough scheme and back into work... We need a furlough scheme that can be tapered down as people return to work."

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