The government announced measures to support workers through the COVID-19 outbreak and encourage employers to reduce workers’ hours rather than firing them. If full-time employees are given part-time hours during the crisis, the government offers them an unemployment benefit equivalent to their lost hours. On the day the registration opened, the Labour Department received 9,670 applications for the short-time work support.
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