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Trade union's warning for North Lanarkshire Council over furlough scheme

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A LEADING trade union has warned North Lanarkshire Council that the local authority’s furlough scheme “must not be a waiting room for redundancy”.Councils across Scotland, including North Lanarkshire, announced last week that they have applied to the UK Government’s job retention scheme to fund their staff.Johanna Baxter, Unison Scotland head of local government, said: “The fact that Scottish councils are having to apply for funding from the Westminster furlough scheme is a damning indictment of the Scottish Government’s under-funding of local government; and demonstrates how cash-strapped they are.“The Scottish Government need to address the shortfall in local government finance as a matter of urgency to protect jobs and services going.

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