Bahrain extends 50% salary payment in sectors impacted by coronavirus

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Mon, 2020-09-28 23:23

RIYADH: Bahrain has extended a scheme in which it pays half of the salaries of Bahraini’s working in parts of the private sector impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.
A cabinet statement said on Monday that the payments would now continue until the end of the year. The scheme, which applies to people registered with the government’s unemployment insurance scheme, had been due to end at the end of this month.
The decree issued by King Hamad will benefit 23,000 Bahraini workers and 4,000 businesses and will be paid over the next three months starting from October.