Although businesses have been receiving state wage subsidies to keep them from laying off workers during a nationwide lockdown, in January the unemployment rate reached a record high. Official figures from the Employment Service indicated that there were some 277,000 people out of a job on 1 January, or 16% of the workforce.
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