Great Britain: unions and employers ask the government to compensate partial unemployment

, the government is going to publish its coming budget, the TUC, the British Chambers of Commerce an the EEF representing the industry, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) and the Work Foundation (advisory body) want temporary compensation of partial unemployment to save jobs. (Ref. 090432)

All these
organizations wrote to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, to
propose that the government partially compensate workers for lost earnings
where there was an agreed reduction in w