The leaders of 19 Jersey businesses, including Delta, Voisins, the Co-Op (Mark Cox, pictured), Sandpiper and Liberation Group are among signatories to a letter that references an ‘utterly ridiculous and infuriating’ lack of urgency from our elected leaders.
In the letter it says the ‘lack of leadership and complacency being shown to the very people who generate wealth to pay for wages and public services is abhorrent.’
The industry leaders call for a state of emergency for the economy to be declared and for the government to sit every day until it has provided a cogent emergency plan of immediate funding.
The government announced a £180m package of measures last week followed by a new ‘co-funding scheme‘, with employers in certain sectors up to £200 per week for each member of staff for six weeks
