Weekly Review of Developments 15/5/2020

Stay Alert. Be Alert. Forever Alert. The world needs lerts now more than ever. Oh, the old jokes were rubbish, eh?

This week's top stories:  

• The NI Pathway to Recovery was published this week by the NI Executive which includes five steps to reopening businesses. The lack of dates to accompany the steps has been viewed by some as a missed opportunity. 
  
  
• In other Coronavirus employment news the Chancellor announced an extension to the Job Retention Scheme,which was welcomed by many, and the Office for National Statistics has issued a report which shows that people working in social care have been twice as likely to die from Covid-19 than the general working population.