Per The Times: "More than half of British........>

UK: Per The Times: "More than half of British businesses will have to cut staff

numbers when the government's job retention scheme expires, a survey suggests.

The government's job retention scheme is paying the incomes of about a quarter

of the workforce and has helped to keep a lid on rising unemployment since the

lockdown was imposed in March. Economists are warning, however, that many of

those people will lose their jobs when the scheme closes in the autumn. YouGov,

the polling company, found that 51 per cent of businesses were intending to make

redundancies within three months of the scheme's expiry. In a survey of 500

employers across the UK, 31 per cent said that a fifth of their workforce was at

risk."