Updated: February 5, 2021, 9:04 am
Delays in assessing furlough cash claims are putting Scottish jobs at risk, it has been claimed, with some firms still waiting to access vital support months after first being approved for the scheme.
Businesses say they have been forced to pay staff out of their own pockets while struggling to make ends meet, and one major employer in Dundee admitted his firm has been forced to consider redundancies despite being approved last year.
It comes as hospitality bosses warn some employers are paying more than double into the Treasury through National Insurance than they are receiving back in financial support grants set up to help them survive the coronavirus pandemic.
Furlough delays: 30 Dundee jobs at risk as Chris Law calls for urgent debate
Delays in assessing furlough cash claims are putting Scottish jobs at risk, it has been claimed, with some firms still waiting to access vital support months after first being approved for the scheme.
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Delays in assessing furlough cash claims are putting Scottish jobs at risk, it has been claimed, with some firms still waiting to access vital support months after first being approved for the scheme.
04/02/2021, 7:40 pm
Delays in assessing furlough cash claims are putting Scottish jobs at risk, it has been claimed, with some firms still waiting to access vital support months after first being approved for the scheme.
Businesses say they have been forced to pay staff out of their own pockets while struggling to make ends meet, and one major employer in Dundee admitted his firm has been forced to consider redundancies despite being approved last year.
It comes as hospitality bosses warn some employers are paying more than double into the Treasury through National Insurance than they are receiving back in financial support grants set up to help them survive the coronavirus pandemic.
I m sure the whole House will agree the country would expect nothing less.
However, Tory backbenchers are bracing themselves to have to return to the Commons to vote on legislation regardless of whether a trade deal is brokered.
One told Express.co.uk they were preparing to have to vote on no deal contingency measures before January 1 if negotiations failed to find a breakthrough.
They said: I would think it s likely we re going to be sitting one way or the other. The question is, what are we going to be debating? Are we going to be debating a deal or are we going to be debating no deal?