Islineclear3_1
Established Member
My worry is that many furloughed workers might be let go or forced to return on less-favourable pay and conditions and to be made to feel they are lucky to still have a job.
It was 16th. I just made my own arrangements to stay home on 15th and 16th. I wasn't the only one I know who did.Wasn't that the 16th? I made a train journey on all of the 14th, 15th and 16th. It was the 16th when there was Boris's "don't go to pubs" announcement, and to me that was the de-facto start of lockdown, bar a cheeky Nando's on the way home.
My worry is that many furloughed workers might be let go or forced to return on less-favourable pay and conditions and to be made to feel they are lucky to still have a job.
My worry is that many furloughed workers might be let go or forced to return on less-favourable pay and conditions and to be made to feel they are lucky to still have a job.
My worry is that many furloughed workers might be let go or forced to return on less-favourable pay and conditions and to be made to feel they are lucky to still have a job.
Given conservative policy over the last 10 years, I'm not entirely sure they will do that..Government's job on the economy is to spend around the lockdown however it can, provide certainly to safe, short-term operations however they can, and then, later, to provide massive stimulus and rebuilding, in order to prevent what happened after the Depression.
I don't think they will either. More than anything else, what's called for is massive government spending. Eventually this will come through tax increases, although there's no room for that right now obviously, so it's borrow borrow borrow. In crisis mode they're doing the borrowing that's called for. In the recovery, it's going to be an interesting ride.Given conservative policy over the last 10 years, I'm not entirely sure they will do that..
Being absolutely brutally objective, it’s quite correct to say such people will be lucky to still have their job.
Just in the last hour I’ve had an email from the hotel where I was booked for two weeks in Wales next month. They’ve very sorry that they won’t be able to honour the booking, due to having taken the difficult decision to cease trading. Thin end of the wedge perhaps, especially for businesses already struggling for whatever unrelated reason?
Inevitably there is going to be a shift in the economy. I know of at least two pubs that have called it a day - one posted on social media that they were struggling beforehand and can't see their business recovering until Covid's gone for good. In some cases it may be a good thing - relying on a service based economy can be very fragile.
Inevitably there is going to be a shift in the economy. I know of at least two pubs that have called it a day - one posted on social media that they were struggling beforehand and can't see their business recovering until Covid's gone for good. In some cases it may be a good thing - relying on a service based economy can be very fragile.
What has happened is that any businesses that were unlikely to have survived more than a year or two more have been cleared out in a stroke.