furlough

The number of fit notes issued by GPs hit a record high of 10.3 million in 2021, a 17% increase from the 8.8 million issued in 2020, research has suggested. The analysis by employment law firm GQ|Littler comes as fit note certification has…

Record profits at Lookers have prompted the car dealer group to return £4 million of furlough support, although its reinstated dividend is almost equal to the amount of business rates relief that it received last year. Lookers has made…

Entain, the gaming giant which owns Ladbrokes, is to repay £44m of the furlough money it claimed during the pandemic, but keep £57.5m. Carolyn Harris MP called it “absolutely shameful” that Entain was not repaying it all, despite…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An award-winning Iranian filmmaker and poet who had been jailed on state…

Donald Trump’s golf courses and leisure businesses in Scotland claimed over £3m in UK government furlough money, newly-published accounts show. Covid restrictions caused substantial losses at Trump resorts in Ayrshire and Aberdeenshire…

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has hailed the “extraordinary success” of the furlough scheme as official figures suggest a “small” number of jobs were lost at its demise. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported a rise of 160,000 in…

When the government’s furlough scheme closes today (30 September), it will bring a remarkable chapter in public and business life to a conclusion. Nothing quite like it has been seen before. It has provided such effective support to…

Qantas said the airline had gone from operating almost 100 percent of its usual domestic flying capacity in May to less than 40 percent in July due to coronavirus…