The Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, has been urged to “get around the table” and fast-track new job support plans amid reports he is working on a new German-style scheme to avoid mass unemployment once furlough ends.Mr Sunak is said to be weighing up a new scheme as part of a wider emergency support programme as pressure mounts on the government to help businesses survive a second wave of coronavirus.The mooted plans would reportedly see the government and firms share the cost of topping up wages for employees only able to work part-time due to the pandemic.Calls have ramped up for a new lifeline for firms after Boris Johnson announced six months of tougher restrictions that threaten the economic recovery, as fears also grow of mass unemployment.
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