Retail NI welcomes job support scheme, but warns against lockdown
Retail NI has welcomed the Chancellor’s statement on the Job Support Scheme but says a second lockdown is simply no an option.
“Hopefully, this will give some reassurance to businesses that face likely closure if the Executive moves to a second lockdown. The Chancellor also announced an increase in funding for the Executive to provide further support and we will be engaging with Ministers next week on the detail of this” said Retail NI Chief Executive Glyn Roberts.
Tightrope
“The Executive is walking a tightrope of reducing the transmission of the virus along with keeping the economy going. However, a second lockdown would result in economic devastation off the scale, resulting in thousands of jobs being lost, businesses collapsing and a huge impact on the mental and physical health of our community”
“A second lockdown is simply not an option” he said.
