More than 40,000 Swiss companies seek state aid for virus impact
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ZURICH (Reuters) - Around 42,000 companies have asked the Swiss government for aid to help compensate workers put on shorter hours as demand drops due to the coronavirus epidemic, a government official said on Thursday.Around 11% of the workforce -- 570,000 people -- is affected by shorter hours, Boris Zuercher, labour directorate head at the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, told a news briefing in Bern. Compensation for workers on short hours is the government's main tool to prevent..