Just two weeks after the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, set out the
Government's new Job Support Scheme (JSS), which will replace
furlough from November 2020, an expansion has been announced. This
announcement was made on 9 October 2020 in the context of potential
new national or local lockdown measures to restrict transmission of
Covid-19.
One of the criticisms of JSS is that it does little to support a
business which has had to shut due to lockdown measures imposed by
the Government. A key example of this would be the current lockdown
measures imposed in Northern Ireland which has forced many
restaurants and other businesses to close for four weeks. These
businesses, and the jobs that they support, may be perfectly viable
but they are just unable to operate due to temporary restrictions.
The Chancellor has sought to address this with the recent
announcement which confirms that the Government will cover two
thirds of the wages (up to £2,100 per month) of
