Scottish Government demands Coronavirus help for self-employed workers

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COLOMBO (News 1st); Sri Lanka’s Deputy Director-General of Public Health Services, Dr. Hemanth Herath has slammed the organizing of mass gatherings in the wake of the COVID-19 spread in the island.‘This is not something that needs to be said over again.

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COLOMBO (News 1st); Thousands of Sri Lankan health workers are on strike for the third consecutive day, citing several demands.The trade unions demand that the authorities eliminate existing salary disparities in the sector just as they eliminated the teacher and principal salary anomalies.Health workers across Sri Lanka including nurses, and Public Health Inspectors are on strike citing multiple demands.They resorted to the indefinite trade union action from Monday (7).As a result of the strike activities at the Colombo General Hospital, Kandy General Hospital, 24 Teaching Hospitals, 26 General Hospitals, 46 Base Hospitals, 410 District Hospitals, and 293 MOH Officers came to a complete standstill.

The Chancellor has promised to help self-employed workers with a multi-billion-pound support package that will cover up to 80% of their wages for the next three months as industries continue to be hit by coronavirus.

An SNP Cabinet Secretary has confirmed key journalists should be allowed to move freely across the country to do their jobs.

The UK government revealed it would pay 80% of wages should a business have to close due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Senior ministers including the Health Secretary may have to self-isolate after Boris Johnson was diagnosed with coronavirus.

Martin Lewis returned to the small screen on Thursday night in a live television special to address a whole host of topics relating to the coronavirus outbreak.

LONDON — Representatives of the U.K. music business have welcomed news that self-employed artists, sound engineers and crew members will receive financial aid to help them cope with the coronavirus crisis.The announcement was made Thursday (Mar.

Martin Lewis will appear on a live television show tonight to answer increasing financial concerns being faced by the British public during the coronavirus outbreak.

The British government will pay grants to self-employed people who have lost their livelihoods because of the COVID-19 lockdown, further extending an unprecedented package of measures to prevent the economy from collapsing, the country’s finance minister announced on Thursday Finance Minister Rishi Sunak said Britain’s government would pay those self-employed people who had been adversely affected by the virus a taxable grant worth 80 per cent of their average monthly profits over the last three years, up to 2,500 pounds a month.

Self-employed workers will have to wait until June to get a £2500-a-month government bail out to help them through the coronavirus pandemic.

The Chancellor Rishi Sunak has tonight unveiled a scheme to help self-employed people affected by the coronavirus epidemic and claimed it was one of the most generous being offered anywhere in the world.

Millions of self-employed people will be given an "unprecedented" grant worth 80% of their profits in a coronavirus bailout - but not until JUNE.

The government has announced a fresh package of financial aid for the self-employed after a change of heart on its policy from last week.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak is expected to announce a financial package aimed at helping the self-employed today.

A financial package aimed at helping self-employed workers get through the coronavirus crisis will be unveiled by UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak today, with the British government under pressure to throw the sector a lifeline.

Around five million self-employed people could have to wait another month before they see any payments to help them through the coronavirus crisis.

Banks are being told to “do their bit” for struggling Scots as finances disappear during the coronavirus lockdown.

Business reputations will be “irreversibly damaged” if they put staff at risk by forcing them to come to work against public health instructions, a senior Scottish Government minister warned.

Judy Murray is leading calls for people to stay at home and not visit some of Scotland's remotest communities amid the coronavirus outbreak.

Scots have been warned 'do not come on holiday to the Highlands' as people flee cities during the coronavirus crisis.

"The Government’s proposals fall far short of the lifeline needed by the self-employed in the music industry and creative sector," says CEO Tom Kiehl

Ordinary Brits are set to benefit from a £7billion welfare support package with Universal Credit increasing by £1,000 a year as part of the 'unprecedented' emergency coronavirus action being taken by the Government.

Hospitality giant G1 Group have backtracked on their decision to axe hundreds of Scots workers amid the coronavirus outbreak.

The U.K. government has put in place another series of unprecedented financial measures aimed at assisting the economy during the coronavirus crisis.

Restaurateurs have welcomed a move from by the government to cover staff wages after they were formally ordered to close their businesses today.

Tonight, the UK government made one of the biggest announcements since the Second World War.

A bail out was also announced that will see the government pay up to 80% of wages in order to protect workers during the coronavirus pandemic

Universal Credit is to be increased by £1,000 a year as the government announced ‘unprecedented’ emergency economic measures to deal with coronavirus.

The Government is pumping almost £7billion into the welfare system to protect people's incomes during the coronavirus pandemic, the Chancellor has announced.

The government will pay workers’ wages after the chancellor announced a ‘coronavirus job retention scheme’.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a series of unprecedented measures to help fight the coronavirus crisis.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled a huge coronavirus bailout to cover the wages of millions of workers and stop firms going bankrupt.

Universal Credit will be raised by £1,000 a year as part of a £7billion coronavirus welfare rescue package.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said the government will help businesses pay wages up to £2,500, which it hopes will prevent coronavirus redundancies.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock has admitted he could not live on the UK's meagre £94.25-a-week rate of sick pay.

Millions of workers face “financial ruin” unless the Government steps in with a wages bailout, union chiefs have warned.

A restaurant owner fearful he could lose his home has written an emotional open letter to the Prime Minister.