Well done Primark & William Hill

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News tonight says that Primark will reject about £30 Mill in “bonuses” from the UK government for bringing furloughed staff back to work

Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced last week, as part of the government’s £30bn “plan for jobs”, that companies who take back workers until the end of January will recieve a £1,000 per job “retention bonus”. If every employer applied for every worker, it would cost taxpayers more than £9bn.

Big companies with furloughed staff — such as Primark, which has 30,000 workers on the support scheme — are eligible for these rewards, even if they are not struggling financially.

But the retailer, which could have been looking at a multi-million pound payout, told The Sunday Times it will not claim it.

The move puts pressure on other big firms to not take advantage of taxpayers by accepting the support payments if they do not need to, The Sunday Times said.

Gambling firm William Hill has also indicated it will reject bonuses of up to £7m.

Asked if employers who could afford it should be following Primark’s example and saving taxpayers’ money, Frances O’Grady, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress said “absolutely”.

She told the Sunday Times: “I think what we are worried about is that there is a risk of getting into gimmicks rather than giving the targeted support that industries need.”

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