In order to avoid job cuts in the steel plants of German producer thyssenkrupp as a result of the war in Ukraine, the body representing employees is counting on a government-subsidized work scheme, the company has confirmed. An agreement on a government furlough scheme – whereby workers are sent home by a company in financial distress, but do not lose their jobs while the government pays a percentage of their salary – has been reached with the executive board, thyssenkrupp Steel confirmed on Friday. The head of the central works council of thyssenkrupp Steel, Tekin Nasikkol had told Saturday’s…