Around 30,000 people have been furloughed in Tameside - bosses fear a 'large chunk' could be made redundant

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hereIt is due to end in October, and Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned there can be no further extension despite a wave of job losses across the country.The chief executive of Tameside council Steven Pleasant told a meeting of the governing body of the Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) that they fear large numbers of people will be laid off in the borough once the scheme ends.He queried whether they have enough ‘resilience in our systems’ for a second surge of the virus.“What we do is we’ve got the non-health impact of Covid coming at us as well,” he said.“We saw it in terms of the level of destitution that was presenting to the humanitarian hub, but we’ve got 30,000 jobs that are furloughed in this borough that are going to be.