Dundee City Centre during lockdown (April 2020). The futures of almost 85,000 Tayside and Fife workers are at stake as new figures revealed huge numbers of local people are on furlough.
The UK Goverment’s job retention scheme is due to end in October, with part-time flexibility being offered from July, leading to fears of a raft of redundancies. Scotland has seen 628,000 workers so far signed up to the scheme. In Dundee there are 15,000 workers benefiting, 12,400 in Angus, 19,700 in Perth, and 37,900 in Fife.
It is feared there will be a wave of redundancies when furlough is […]
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