Germany/Austria/Switzerland have similar programs (called Kurzarbeit) which are for situations like these (where companies don't have enough work at the moment

Germany/Austria/Switzerland have similar programs (called Kurzarbeit) which are for situations like these (where companies don't have enough work at the moment but are believed to recover), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short-time_working https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short-time_working - what was done for the covid crisis here (Switzerland) was to simplify the application process for it.