Chancellor expands furlough scheme for businesses

It will reduce the level of employer contribution to 5% of a workers' salary - down from the previous level of 33%. The new measures, outlined just 10 days before the job support scheme (JSS) was due to come into effect, will also cut the number of hours an employee must work before a company can receive support, reducing it to 20% from 33%. Mr Sunak said that if someone was being paid £587 of their unworked hours, the government would be contributing £543 towards that amount - leaving £45 for an employer to pay. Under the previous JSS plans announced last month, employees would ha...