Jobs, businesses unlikely to fall off cliff when government aid ends
Extension and timing of payouts, coupled with transmission lag, should ease transition; financial and some other sectors doing well and hiring again
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GOVERNMENT support and relief schemes have seen companies big and small through the worst of the pandemic's impact for much of this year.
But as these measures taper off into 2021, one worry is whether firms are strong enough to go it alone - or whether retrenchments and cessations were only delayed rather than avoided, and may now occur with a vengeance.
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