Originally Posted by
KARFA
I am not clear what you are proposing as an alternative to the government scheme, but if your idea is BA gets no help that would have resulted in many staff including lower paid ones being put on prolonged unpaid leave. I am not sure why that seems to be better?
Apologies if I wasn't clear. I was never suggesting that BA would keep people working at full pay. I was suggesting that they should give them the government amount and not more (after all, rich people can survive on the same generous amount too) - if BA thinks it can afford more, they should be paying it out of their own pocket, not the taxpayer’s. It’s the government’s fault really. But as we’re at risk of going OT by discussing the merits or otherwise of the Chancellor’s snap not-thought-through decision, I’ll leave it there.