Primark rejects 30-million-pound UK bonus for bringing back staff

Primark, the fashion retailer owned by AB Foods , said on Sunday it would not take advantage of a British government scheme to pay employers for bringing back staff from furlough, eschewing a bonus of about 30 million pounds ($38 million).Primark closed all of its stores in March when the COVID-19 outbreak in Europe intensified, costing it about 650 million pounds in net sales a month.Across Europe 68,000 staff received furlough payments from governments, without which it said it would have been