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It was extremely disappointing that the UK Government chose not to continue to participate in the Erasmus programme. When we look at the decision to stay associated with the horizon research programme but not with the Erasmus programme, it looks rather ideological, and it clea...
It is valuable reading for anybody who is interested in managing programmes of change well. In the Scottish Government context, there are well-trodden paths around NHS 24, the common agricultural policy futures programme and so on.
It was an alternative that was brought in, but given that those projects are now classified as public, we have had to accommodate them within the capital programme. The period of time in which we are having to do that is time limited, because once the programme’s construction phase has completed, that will be the point at which that encroachment into our capital programme will cease.
Will the Deputy First Minister join me in urging all employers to be as flexible as possible with their employees, allowing them to work at home whenever possible, and to utilise the furlough scheme to ensure that as many people as possible can stay at home, protect the national health service and save lives during this lockdown period?
Inclusion Scotland has said: “We believe that this would make it impossible for Third Sector Agencies, and their employees, who provide services to their clients on a confidential basis to continue to offer such services on that basis in the future.”
Major names on our high street stand accused not only of paying poverty wages but of playing fast and loose with people’s health and throwing their employees on the economic scrap heap on a whim, even while the owners line their own pockets.
In the current climate with many premises having to close or having no cash flow there has been a demand for assistance from tenants to assist them in the form of rent holidays, rent reductions, and rent deferment.