The owners of Renfrewshire bus operator McGill’s have vowed to personally pay staff wages until the government furlough scheme kicks in.James and Sandy Easdale praised the job retention scheme but said problems with payments mean employees may have to wait weeks to receive any income.The brothers say they will step in to pick up the tab but called on more to be done to protect the bus industry and its workers during the Covid-19 pandemic.
In a letter to the company’s 1,000 employees, managing director Ralph Roberts says that McGill’s has already lost 90 per cent of its custom.
In it he says that despite the remaining drivers having direct contact with members of the public they are struggling to get supplies of masks, face shields and
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