Job retention schemes – such as the SURE programme – supporting short-term working in the Member States were one of the main policy tools used during the Covid-19 pandemic. They made it possible to safeguard 26.9 million jobs in the EU in 2020 and 2021, while reducing inequality by 0.15 percentage points and the at-risk-of-poverty rate by 0.5 percentage points, according to a new report published on Thursday 26 September by the Eurofound - European Foundation for the Improvement of...