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Coronavirus: 300,000 redundancies planned in June and July – BBC News
A Freedom of Information request shows a sixfold increase in the number of firms planning job cuts.
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British employers planned more than 300,000 redundancies in June and July, as the coronavirus outbreak took its toll on the workplace.
1,784 firms made plans to cut nearly 150,000 jobs in July, almost a sevenfold increase on July 2019.
The figures were obtained by a BBC Freedom of Information request.
In June 1,888 employers filed plans for 156,000 job cuts, a sixfold increase on the previous year.
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