10m now unemployed or on furlough

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Indeed your query was a person working 1 hour a week count towards employment stats. The answer is yes. The post Covid work will strip those jobs first as they are valued least and will just reflect the true figures. You know as well as I do that central govt diktat is to hide / massage the figures. Underlying employment in the U.K. is between 3 -4 million The rest is just sleight of hand. All Govts do it Thatcher dumped loads onto sickness benefit. Blair did it. The Govts post 2010 have taken it to a new level.

 

So now you’re just ignoring what I post and creating your own discussion.

you’ve failed to change my opinion of fraud officers.
Which office?

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8341253/Is-future-clothes-shopping-UK.html

The future for retail in Australia where cases and deaths have been flattened. If anything similar is brought in here people will just move to online shopping full time.

 

nope you started by saying that people who work 1 hour a week are not designated as being employed when it’s been shown to you they are.

Sheffield. Leeds. A secondment in Manchester. Pointless after the tories came in and discreetly stopped trying to catch people committing benefit fraud.

 

Well as you're trained in evidence gathering it'll be a piece of cake for you to find where I posted that and quote it here

 

Furloughing is merely a Redundancy Deferment Scheme when it comes down to it, just a more expensive but compassionate way of dealing with what, for some, will be inevitable.

From August firms must contribute to furlough costs. Apparently it will be the end of the month before more clarity on the details of this are given. I expect more redundancies to follow.
No news on the self employed though I would think that will be scaled back or scrapped completely.