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Wake Up to Money: What's happening to our jobs?

What's happening to our jobs?

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In June and July, 300,000 people were made redundant, seven times more than last summer.

What can we do to help the 300,000 people made redundant this June and July? Sean also hears from Trevor who lost his job and so handed his CV out in Leeds train station.

British employers planned more than 300,000 redundancies in June and July, as the coronavirus outbreak took its toll on the workplace. That's seven times more than in the same time last year. Sean looks into what's happening to the jobs market. 
Plus: what the travel industry makes of the government's newest initiative: "regional" travel corridors.
Why JD and Primark may be escaping the worst of the retail crisis.
And Trevor tells Sean how his desperate search for work found him handing out his CV in a train station.
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