Furlough scheme: UK has no choice but to extend it, but there are serious risks
- Written by Alan Shipman, Senior Lecturer in Economics, The Open University
Surplus to requirements. Carlos CaetanoFinance ministers usually rejoice when businesses and employees alike both plead for a signature scheme to be extended. But for UK chancellor Rishi Sunak, demands to continue the country’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, AKA the furlough, beyond March are as financially uncomfortable as they are...