Monthly Archives: October 2020

Evaluating the Job Support Scheme

As part of the government’s efforts to support the economy during the coronavirus lockdown, the chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a new job support scheme. It has received much positive press coverage, but Barry Fine, a director of Alexander Bursk, remains unimpressed. How effective will the new Job Support scheme be at  stopping  redundancies ? Not Very. Why not? It requires employers to pay their employees at a rate of… Read Article →