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Job losses

September 2024

  • Sparks and molten metal fly out as a worker in safety gear and visor operates a blast furnace

    Blow for British steel industry as 2,500 jobs go at Port Talbot

    Confirmation comes despite £500m government funding towards building new greener arc furnace at plant
  • tall metal structures at tall metal structures at the Tata Steel plant in Port Talbot silhouetted against a pale sky

    British steel industry braces for 2,500 job cuts at Port Talbot in government deal

    Details of taxpayer-funded rescue plan for Tata-owned south Wales plant are expected on Wednesday
  • Stacks of one-pound coins on British notes.

    UK state pension could rise by about £460 a year from April, wage growth figures suggest

    Average earnings including bonuses in three months to July – used to calculate the triple lock – grew by 4%

August 2024

  • Shell logo

    Shell to cut hundreds of jobs in oil and gas exploration operations

  • Interior of two-storey shop

    Sainsbury’s to buy 10 Homebase stores and convert them into big supermarkets

  • Man in protective gear stands in front of fire and machinery

    Thousands of British Steel jobs could go by Christmas, union warns

  • A couple pass a magenta-coloured Ted Baker storefront in London

    Ted Baker’s remaining stores to close this week, putting 500 jobs at risk

  • Uncertainty over Port Talbot’s future ‘causing supply chain job losses’

  • Jobs market and pay growth are cooling off, large UK employers and recruiters warn

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    Federal Reserve interest rate cut bets rise as US jobs disappointment fuels growth fears – as it happened

July 2024

  • Man browses samples at CarpetRight retail store

    Most of Carpetright’s £345m debts are unlikely to be repaid

  • Taylor Swift fans queue outside Murrayfield ahead of her concert

    Taylor Swift tour and job cuts help lift profits of Mirror publisher Reach

  • People shelter under umbrellas as they pass a Ted Baker shop

    Ted Baker ‘plans to shut all its UK shops within weeks’

  • woman enters CarpetRight shop

    Carpetright rival buys 54 shops in rescue deal but more than 1,500 jobs will go

  • Body Shop nears rescue deal with group led by British cosmetics tycoon

  • Titanic shipyard owner Harland & Wolff awaits news of funding lifeline

  • Dyson to cut more than a quarter of UK workforce

June 2024

  • Protest outside the annual shareholder meeting:a group of people hold union flags, banners and signs including one calling for a living wage.

    Workers at Premier Inn owner protest at AGM against plans to cut 1,500 jobs

    Unite union also considering employment tribunal claims for unfair dismissal against Whitbread
  • A lime-green-coloured Jobcentre Plus sign

    UK unemployment rising at fastest pace of OECD countries, analysis shows

    TUC says only Costa Rica had similar increase in first quarter as ONS data expected to show further rise in April
  • The steelworks at Port Talbot, Wales

    Union plans to escalate action over job losses at two steelworks in Wales

    Unite move comes after Tata, which owns Port Talbot and Llanwern plants, threatened to cut redundancy pay
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