With an estimated 188,000 job vacancies in the hospitality industry, pub and restaurant owners are starting to complain about the furlough scheme – specifically, that it has made people lose the will to work. That is unlikely: furlough covered only 80% percent of wages, and given what a struggle it is to keep afloat even on 100% of a pay packet (17.4% of working households are now in relative poverty , the highest number this century), anyone on minimum wage would probably prefer work to furlough. Arguably, the million people who have left the UK since Brexit might have […]
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