Assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions HENRY FOWLER reports on day 1 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at Quorn Grange Hotel
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RECENT figures showing unemployment rising to 5 per cent in the three months to November 2020 were further evidence of the growing jobs crisis facing Britain.
Not a week passes by without more announcements of job cuts from household name companies, and many job losses of course do not even reach the headlines.
Behind these latest figures was confirmation that both times unemployment rose the most last year was when government support through furlough was expected to end or reduced — namely, in July when the initial Job Retention Scheme ended (with unemployment rising by 17 per cent) and October when the Job Retention Scheme was due to end on October 31 and an extension not announced until November (with unemployment rising by 8 per cent).
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