‘Raise sick pay’ to lower virus health and economic risk

‘Raise sick pay’ to lower virus health and economic risk

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Statutory sick pay should be increased and the furlough scheme extended on a flexible basis, new research suggests.

Doing so would better manage a “crude” trade-off between lives and livelihoods as the UK economy reopens.

These are two of the recommendations in a new report from the Royal Society.

It says economic and health data should be combined to produce…

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