Kurzarbeit: Germany’s scheme for avoiding unemployment

The short-time work benefit is credited for Germany avoiding a rise in unemployment in 2009

UK coronavirus: record 6,634 new cases reported; chancellor announces job support scheme – as it happened

UK reports highest single-day figure since the outbreak began; chancellor announces ‘job support scheme’ to subsidise wages of people in work

Media criticise PM’s Covid strategy, as UK adopts job support scheme similar to Germany’s own

Rishi Sunak survives the day by offering support for workers in ‘viable’ jobs. And not being Boris Johnson

Five measures absent from the chancellor’s winter economy plan

Chancellor appears to defend decision to reopen swathes of economy amid coronavirus

The replacement for the UK furlough scheme is similar to Germany’s Kurzarbeit

Bling montages and shrewd commentary mark this adaptation of Thomas Piketty’s grim bestseller about inequality and excess

Chancellor to revamp support for jobs and economy owing to tightening of restrictions

There is evidence that scheme under which Berlin tops up wages of those put on short-time working is effective

Rishi Sunak urged to rethink plans to end furlough scheme as fears rise over job losses

Exclusive: option part of wider emergency package to help firms through second wave of Covid-19

Bank of England forecasts for 7.5% unemployment this winter may have to be revised up considerably

Lobby groups say latest advice is ‘extraordinarily reactive’ as TUC tells PM to ‘get a grip’

City says economic fightback is running out of steam as new restrictions are announced