RSA: UK should adopt France’s partial activity scheme

RSA: UK should adopt France’s partial activity scheme

Montmartre, Paris Shutterstock Future state support for industries threatened by coronavirus needs to be better targeted and take into account the additional risk to jobs from automation, which is being introduced faster in several sectors in response to the pandemic.

A new report from thinktank RSA (Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) looking at the long-term prospects for jobs in the UK proposes a modified Job Support Scheme (JSS) that would see the introduction of a two-track system based on the French “partial activity” scheme.

[Our proposals] provide the basis for a system that could allow the economy to […]

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