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    Robert Peston‏Verified account @Peston 2 Mar 2020

    A huge under-discussed problem relating to the Covid19 potential crisis is how to give confidence to those on low pay, especially the significant numbers on zero hours contracts in retail and hospitality, that if they self-quarantine they won’t suffer extreme hardship. I...

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      2. Robert Peston‏Verified account @Peston 2 Mar 2020

        understand the DWP is looking at this. But the problem is huge and urgent - because to prevent viral spread it really matters that workers don’t fear they’ll run out of money if they don’t work. Given that older people are especially at risk from the virus, think about the...

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      3. Robert Peston‏Verified account @Peston 2 Mar 2020

        tragic implications if those working in social care don’t self isolate themselves when they are contagious. It seems to me there are three big and urgent problems. 1) encouraging or even obliging companies to remove the requirement for a...

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      4. Robert Peston‏Verified account @Peston 2 Mar 2020

        doctor’s sick note to access statutory sick pay (something @JonAshworth mentioned today). 2) making sure universal credit is agile enough to top up the pay of those on zero hours or short term contracts when they cannot work, in an expedited way. 3) finding a way to...

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      5. Robert Peston‏Verified account @Peston 2 Mar 2020

        compensate the many students and young people who aren’t on universal credit and lose all income when they don’t work in coffee shops, restaurants and so on. If the government really wants to contain or delay the spread of Covid19, then it will have to find proper money to...

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      6. Robert Peston‏Verified account @Peston 2 Mar 2020

        compensate those who do the right thing by not working. And also compensate businesses that can’t trade because they lack a sufficient number of virus-free staff. It won’t be cheap.

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      2. Charlotte Downs‏ @CharlotteLDowns 2 Mar 2020
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        Agreed!!

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      1. Rickey 🛃‏ @rickeyst 2 Mar 2020
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        Stop panicking people.if you the media carry on and their is no apocolypse, where will you be then.

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