Employers to pay furloughed staff pension contributions from August

James Phillips
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​Employers will be required to pay a proportion of furloughed staff costs from August, Rishi Sunak has announced today.

Payments under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme will be slowly tapered from the beginning of August to end of October, the chancellor confirmed, with employers picking up more of the cost as th...

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