Covid: Nearly 500,000 redundancies planned since crisis began

Covid: Nearly 500,000 redundancies planned since crisis began

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British employers planned 58,000 redundancies in August, taking the total to 498,000 for the first five months of the Covid crisis.

966 separate employers told the government of plans to cut 20 or more jobs, compared to 214 last August, a more than fourfold increase.

However, the figures were down from the levels seen in June and July, which both saw 150,000 job…

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