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Series about the world of work from vast corporations to modest volunteers

Series of programmes about the whole world of work, public and private, from vast corporations to modest volunteers

In Business: The Jobs Challenge

The Jobs Challenge

BBC Radio 4 - In Business, The Jobs Challenge

Whose jobs are most at risk from the economic wreckage of Covid 19?

As millions are still on furlough and the list of companies announcing job cuts increases relentlessly, Jonty Bloom asks whose jobs are most at risk in the economic wreckage.

As the UK emerges from the coronavirus lockdown, millions of employees  are still furloughed – either fully or part-time – with most of their salaries paid by the government.  But how many of them really have jobs to go back to?  Already companies including British Airways, Rolls Royce, Bentley, Jaguar Landrover and Centrica, to name just a few, have announced thousands of  job losses and no-one knows what the true picture will look like by the autumn, as government support is removed. 

There are dire warnings that the labour market could be as bad or even worse than  the 1980s.  Jonty Bloom asks whose jobs are most at risk from the economic damage wreaked by Covid 19 and what help is needed.
 
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