New figures show that in the last three months, younger people came off furlough twice as fast as all other age brackets, with almost 600,000 under-25s leaving the scheme in that time.
It has been credited with stopping a spike in unemployment but some fear a flood of job losses given a continuing squeeze on businesses in hard-hit sectors such as travel and events.
Data released on Thursday shows that 58% of jobs at UK airlines are still furloughed. Travel agencies and tour operators, photographers and the arts also still have many people on furlough. Chancellor Rishi Sunak has refused to further extend the scheme, which has cost almost £50bn to date. There are fears huge taxes will have to pay for it, with one ThinkTank warning last year that rises of £40bn are ‘all but inevitable’.
Jobs in sectors including hospitality and retail are moving off the scheme the fastest, with more than a million coming off the scheme in the last three months.He said: ‘It’s fantastic to see businesses across the UK open, employees returning to work and the numbers of furloughed jobs falling to their lowest levels since the scheme began.Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at
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