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Ministers meet unions and business to plan getting UK back to work

Ministers meet unions and business to plan getting UK back to work

Talks aimed at bringing in practices that reassure employees it is safe to leave lockdown

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Ministers have held a series of high-level meetings with trades unions and business leaders amid fears that millions of people will be too fearful to return to work as pressure intensifies on the government to publish a path out of the national lockdown.

The Guardian has been told that both sides of industry have been drafted into seven sector-by-sector meetings chaired by the business secretary, Alok Sharma, in recent days – after concerns arose in Whitehall that many employees may be reluctant to return to the workplace, even when the government gives the green light.

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