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‘Raise sick pay’ to lower virus health and economic risk – Yahoo News Australia
It would manage a “crude” trade-off between lives and jobs as the UK economy reopens, a report says.
Statutory sick pay should be increased and the furlough scheme extended on a flexible basis, new research suggests.
Doing so would better manage a “crude” trade-off between lives and livelihoods as the UK economy reopens.
These are two of the recommendations in a new report from the Royal Society.
It says economic and health data should be combined to produce the best economic outcome at the smallest loss of life. The government says it has already protected 9.6 million jobs.
The report by P…
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