UK to double work coaches as lockdown hammers jobs market

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Britain's government will double the number of its job coaches as part of a plan to tackle a rise in unemployment triggered by the coronavirus lockdown, the finance ministry said on Saturday.

FILE PHOTO: A shop worker sticks a 'we are open' sign on the door of a shop, amid the coronavirus disease outbreak, in Watford, Britain, June 16, 2020. REUTERS/Peter Cziborra/File Photo

The number of work coaches at British job centres will double to 27,000 at a cost of 800 million pounds , the ministry said. The number of people on British employers’ payrolls fell by more than 600,000 in April and May and vacancies plunged by the most on record in the three months to May.

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