Thousands of people in Britain are set to lose their jobs after a raft of companies announced plans to reduce the size of their workforce.
Businesses in all sectors are struggling with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic but retail and are being hit particularly hard.
Many firms across the 海角视频 have fallen into administration in 2020, while others are balancing on a knife-edge - many of which are being propped up by the government’s job retention scheme.
The programme has been paying 80 per cent of the wages for nine million workers in the 海角视频, but the scheme will end permanently on October 31 - a time when more redundancies are likely.
It is being replaced with the but that will only help where staff are kept on on a part-time basis.
But which companies have already made the decision to cut jobs?
BusinessLive has taken a look at the firms which have made redundancy announcements so far.
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The pub chain announced it is set to cut more than 2,000 as coronavirus restrictions bite while furlough support comes to an end.
The impact will be on 2,150 workers currently on furlough support and the firm said it will also launch a further cost-cutting plan by the end of the year.
Ralph Findlay, chief executive of Wolverhampton-based Marston’s, said: “The additional restrictions which have been applied across the 海角视频 most recently present significant challenges to us and will make business more difficult for a period of time.
“I very much regret that the consequence of this is that the jobs of around 2,150 of our colleagues will be impacted, but it is an inevitable consequence of the limitations placed upon our business.
“We will be looking at our cost base further in the coming weeks.”
Marston’s blames recent nationwide measures to tackle the surge in coronavirus cases, which has seen curfews placed on hospitality venues and the .
HSS Hire
The tool rental company said it plans to cut around 300 jobs as it closes more than 134 sites across the country.
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The business said that the Covid-19 pandemic had showed it is ready to accelerate a strategy to invest in technological solutions, meaning that it needs to run fewer physical sites.
During the pandemic, HSS has pushed its new, online platforms hard - launching a click and collect service and brining homeworking in for staff.
HSS Hire employs more than 2,000 people across the 海角视频 and runs a couple of hundred branches.
National Trust
The National Trust has announced it is slashing 1,300 jobs amid moves to save £100m of annual costs as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The organisation, which warned in July that it might have to make people redundant to deal with the fallout from the coronavirus crisis, has said it is making 514 compulsory redundancies following consultation.
A further 782 people have taken voluntary redundancy, as part of cuts to jobs that will save around £59m a year.
The Trust is also saving around £41m in annual costs from areas such as reducing travel and office costs and cutting marketing and print spend in favour of digital communications.
The coronavirus crisis hit almost every aspect of income for the conservation and heritage charity, which has 5.6 million members, shutting all of its houses, gardens, car parks, shops and cafes, and stopping holidays and events.
Around £124m of projects have been halted.
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Manchester Airport Group
Manchester Airport's parent company has warned more than 450 jobs are at risk at the airport as Europe sees a resurgence in Covid-19 cases.
Manchester Airport Group said a total of 892 jobs are at risk across the airports it operates, with 465 jobs at Manchester Airport, 376 roles at London Stansted and 51 positions at East Midlands under threat.
Unite the Union has blamed the job losses on the government's failure to provide support to the sector.
Manchester Airports Group (MAG), which operates all three airports - and whose profits are shared by the 10 Greater Manchester councils - has also warned of 'adjustments' to roles, roster patterns and 'other employment measures' as it attempts to deal with the devastating impact of the pandemic's impact on travel habits.
Greene King
The pub and restaurant company has said it will after being hit by tighter restrictions in the face of the pandemic.
It will keep 79 of its sites shut for the time being, it said in October, with around one third of these closures expected to be permanent.
It called on the Government to provide urgent support for the hospitality sector while tightened restrictions, such as the recent 10pm curfew, remain in place.
Greene King, which was bought by a Hong-Kong real estate giant last year, is one of the 海角视频's biggest hospitality firms, with 3,100 pubs, restaurants and hotels across the 海角视频.
Cineworld
5,500 jobs in the 海角视频 are set to go as cinema giant Cineworld moves to temporarily close all of its sites in both the 海角视频 and the US in the wake of movie studio delaying their major film releases during the pandemic.
The move affects a total of around 45,000 employees in the two countries, Cineworld's two main markets.
The firm's 127 Cineworld and Picturehouse theatres in the 海角视频 will close, alongside 536 Regal theatres in the US.
Cineworld chief executive Mooky Greidinger said: "This is not a decision we made lightly, and we did everything in our power to support safe and sustainable reopenings in all of our markets - including meeting, and often exceeding, local health and safety guidelines in our theatres and working constructively with regulators and industry bodies to restore public confidence in our industry."
Dickies
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US-based VF Corporation, the parent company of Williamson-Dickie, which makes Dickies Workwear, is looking to "discontinue" the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) arm of its workwear business.
According to the company, the announcement follows a review of the Dickies Workwear business in EMEA.
VF said the current business model was “not in line” with finance performance expectations.
If the proposals are adopted, VF said it intended to complete the full business closure in the 海角视频 by March 31, 2021.
Greggs
Bakery giant Greggs said is to cut jobs when the Government’s furlough scheme ends, though it hopes to reduce the number people affected.
The Newcastle-based firm said it had opened consultations on job losses, though it hasn’t said how many roles are at risk.
Greggs chief executive Roger Whiteside said the firm needed to reduce the hours worked at around half of its 2,000 shops, but until talks with staff were completed, it couldn't say how many roles were at risk.
In a trading update, the company said its sales had reached 76.1% of last year’s levels during September, but this was only a slight improvement on its last update.
It said it hoped to reduce the number of jobs losses by staff taking reduced hours and by opening new shops.
In a trading update, Greggs said: “With the Job Retention Scheme planned to end in October we are taking steps to ensure that our employment costs reflect the estimated level of demand from November onwards.
“With business activity levels remaining below normal for the foreseeable future we must change the way we work to be as productive and flexible as we can in order to protect as many jobs as possible for the long term.
“We have completed a review of our activity and requirements in every part of the business and are now proposing a series of changes which are the subject of a collective consultation with union and employee representatives. Our aim is to minimise the risk of job losses by negotiating reduced hours in our shops and we will update on the outcome of the consultation when concluded.”
TSB
More than 900 jobs will be lost as high street bank TSB announced plans to .
The bank will shut 164 sites, with locations of the branches due to be announced this afternoon.
The moves - which will mean TSB will have more than halved its estate over the past seven years - have come with the Spanish-owned bank saying the cuts have been driven by a “significant shift in customer behaviour”, as fewer customers use branches in favour of online banking.
The company has previously said it intended to reduce the size of its branch network but has now accelerated plans amid the pandemic.
It will leave the bank with 290 branches, more than halving its store estate over the past seven years.
Shell
The oil giant has announced plans to cut up to 9,000 jobs worldwide due to a collapse in demand for oil following the coronavirus pandemic.
Between 7,000 and 9,000 jobs will go by the end of 2022 as part of a major cost-cutting drive after the business was hit by a drop in demand for oil and a subsequent dive in prices.
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Investors have been told that this includes around 1,500 employees taking voluntary redundancy this year.
Ronseal
The company which makes the famous Ronseal “does exactly what it says on the tin” wood stain is to shut its Plymouth factory putting 45 jobs at risk after making a loss of nearly £2million.
Sherwin-Williams Diversified Brands Ltd’s plant in Western Wood Way, Langage, is earmarked for closure and a 30-day consultation with staff has begun.
The US-owned paint manufacturing company aims to relocate operations to its main 海角视频 base in Sheffield and took the decision after a review of its sealant and caulk business and the “shifting global dynamics over the last several years”.
The company statement said the move in no way reflected on the dedication and performance of its staff in Plymouth, where the factory makes the Geocel sealant, and has been operating for several years.
The Plymouth and Sheffield factories are part of the giant American Sherwin-Williams Company, headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, which boasted a turnover of US$17.9billion in 2019.
But the 海角视频 operations have been in the doldrums of late with documents filed at Companies House in September 2020 revealing a before-tax loss of £1,933,232 for the year to the end of 2019.
Ford
The Ford engine plant in Bridgend closed in September with the loss of 1,000 jobs after 40 years of production.
It comes after the decision of the car maker last year to cease production, in what was a major blow for the Welsh automotive sector.
That has been compounded by the decision earlier this year of Ineos Automotive to abandon plans for a new factory, next to the Ford plant, assembling its new 4 x4 Grenadier vehicle in an investment that promised to create 500 jobs. It has now confirmed that the vehicle will be built in France.
When Ford announced the closure of the Bridgend plant it employed 1,644. Since then some 362 staff have found new employment or started their own businesses, while 236 retired or took severance.
Some 120 staff will remain on site for a number of months for de-commissioning work, while 50 staff have taken up employment at other Ford sites.
The Cartwright Group
Around 480 jobs have been axed after a North West manufacturing group placed two businesses into administration.
Trafford-based The Cartwright Group said the move comes after the company fell into financial difficulty due to the coronavirus pandemic.
In September, staff who turned up to the head office in Broadheath were met with an audio message from appointed administrators Deloitte, .
The message confirmed that S Cartwright and Sons coachbuilders and Cartwright Fabrications had "ceased trading with immediate effect".
The Cartwright Group, based in , confirmed the decision to staff on Tuesday afternoon.
The 68-year-old trailer manufacturer employed around 800 people across sites in Cheshire, Leeds, Glasgow and Aldridge.
TUI
Holiday operator Tui confirmed a programme to axe 8,000 jobs in September after seeing summer bookings tumble by 83% in the wake of the pandemic.
The global travel giant announced in May a plan to cut the jobs as it sought to reduce its annual overheads by 30%.
Tui has received huge sums of cash from the German Federal Government to keep trading, including a further stabilisation package of €1.2bn announced last month.
Tui cut its fourth quarter programme from 30% to just 25%, with the upcoming winter holiday capacity recently reduced by around another fifth.
Tui has received huge sums of cash from the German Federal Government to keep trading, including a further stabilisation package of €1.2bn announced last month.
Tui, which slumped to a £995m loss in its third quarter, has also switched to alternative low-risk destinations , enabling many customers to continue their holidays as planned, but said the last month has been impacted by “continuous changes in travel advice by various governments across our markets”, with holidaymakers now booking very last minute as a result.
Whitbread
Premier Inn owner Whitbread has warned it could to hit demand for hotel stays.
The company said that sales in the first half of the year were "significantly down year-on-year" after it had to close most of its hotels and restaurants for the coronavirus lockdown.
It said it was performing ahead of market since being able to re-open and that it had 98% of its hotels operational by the end of the accounting period.
But the company's hotels are still almost half empty, with occupancy levels reaching only 51% in August. The Eat Out To Help Out scheme had helped restaurant sales but total revenues were still down 38.5% year-on-year in August.
Whitbread is now looking to cut 6,000 jobs - almost a fifth of its workforce - as a result of reduced demand, saying it hopes the reduction can be achieved through voluntary redundancies.
J D Wetherspoon
Up to 130 head office jobs at national chain JD Wetherspoon could be cut as the firm deals with the impact of Covid on the pub and restaurant sector.
The number amounts to around a third of jobs at its head offices around the country, but chief executive John Hutson has said no firm decision has yet been made.
A total of 417 people are currently employed in head office roles including around the country, and Mr Hutson said he would listen to staff in a bid to avoid compulsory redundancies.
The decision will affect all head office staff, apart from those in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
easyJet
The budget airline is closing regional hubs in Newcastle, London Stansted and London Southend.
It has been reported the move will result in 5,000 jobs losses – including more than 700 pilot roles – across the three sites, however, it said that the airports would remain part of easyJet’s route network.
The firm said it needed to reduce staff numbers by up to 30 per cent and has started a formal consultation with its employee representatives over proposals to potentially cease basing crew and aircraft at the three hubs.
Next
The Next store chain is planning to make redundancies at its national head office.
The £4.2 billion turnover group was forced to close all its stores when the lockdown was imposed, and revised potential lost revenues for the year from between £400million and £1 billion in March to between £1.2billion and £1.6billion in April.
Even as shops reopen, it expects to see 40 per cent fewer sales over the year.
A spokesman for the FTSE 100 company said that some 150 staff were under consultation at its national headquarters in Enderby, Leicestershire.
The consultation will run until the middle of August when, the spokesman said, around 75 jobs could go.
Airbus
Airbus is to axe 1,700 jobs in the 海角视频 as part of global restructure due to reduced production levels.
Chief Executive Guillaume Faury warned the aerospace giant was planning for a two-year drop of 40 per cent in jetliner output because of the coronavirus pandemic and that restructuring was needed.
Meetings with unions in Europe have started and the cuts due at individual sites will be announced in the coming days.
John Lewis
The retail giant is planning to close stores, make redundancies and scrap its bonus, it has been reported.
New chairman Sharon White reportedly sent a bombshell letter to staff, warning of potential closures as well as job losses.
According to the Evening Standard, Mrs White's letter to staff of the partnership, which includes Waitrose, said “it is likely that there will implications for some Partners’ jobs”.
It is not known yet how many roles could be affected.
Vispring
海角视频 bedmaker Vispring, which is favoured among celebrities such as David and Victoria Beckham, is expected to make redundancies at its large Plymouth factory.
Union bosses said staff at the large plant in the Ernesettle area of the city, where about 230 people are employed, have been written to and told job losses are likely.
It is understood the firm, which mothballed its operation during the height of the Covid-19 lockdown has suffered from falling orders for its bespoke, high-end mattresses and divans.
Genting Casino
Gambling firm Genting Casino is considering closing three of its outlets with job losses across its remaining 29 sites across the 海角视频, union bosses say.
The company has written to workers outlining its plans as it battles losses caused by having to shut its sites during the coronavirus lockdown.
It is understood three casinos – in Torquay, Bristol and possibly in Margate – are potentially to close permanently, and an undisclosed number of jobs will be lost across all the business’ 32 venues.
Britannia’s Adelphi Hotel
Almost half of jobs at Britannia Hotels' Adelphi in Liverpool could be axed in a move described by union officials as a "hammer blow".
The hotel chain is planning to cut 83 of the 178 staff currently employed at the historic city centre site.
The move is understood to be in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and its effect on the industry, although union RMT said "firm details" about the decision are yet to be released.
SSP
Uppercrust and Ritazza owner SSP has announced plans to shed up to around 5,000 jobs as a result of plunging passengers numbers at transport hubs.
The group, which also owns a number of brands while running travel sites for other big names, warned it expects to open only around a fifth of its sites in the 海角视频 by the autumn as travel is set to remain at very low levels amid the Covid-19 crisis.
It has launched a consultation on a restructure to “simplify and reshape” the business in the face of the pandemic, which it said could lead to more than half of its 9,000-strong peak season workforce being axed.
The group said head office and 海角视频 staff would be affected by the cuts.
Virgin Money
Around 400 jobs are to be lost in the latest stage of redundancies announced in October that followed the merger between Virgin Money and the owner of the Clydesdale and Yorkshire banks.
The job losses will be spread between Virgin Money’s offices in Newcastle, Glasgow and Leeds, and are part of a reduction in staff announced by the bank when CYBG merged with Virgin Money two years ago.
In 2018, the bank said it would cut 1,500 jobs - about 16% of its workforce - as part of a rationalisation programme and the elimination of duplicated roles.
The bank had previously signalled 500 job losses earlier this year with a programme of branch closures and other cuts, though the programme was suspended at the start of the coronavirus outbreak and the job losses were later reduced to 300.
Harrods
Harrods is reportedly planning to make 700 employees redundant.
According to Retail Gazette, in an email circulated to the company’s staff, chief executive Michael Ward said 680 jobs out of its 4800-strong workforce would go.
Ward reportedly said the job cuts would come “in parts of the business that have been most affected by the challenges of lockdown.”
TM Lewin
Shirtmaker TM Lewin is to close all of its 海角视频 stores and around 600 workers will lose their jobs at the firm after it said it was going online-only in a bid to save the 120-year-old brand.
The retailer had recently been bought by Stonebridge Private Equity through its subsidiary Torque Brands, with the new owner saying that the future of the entire retail sector was facing a "very real threat."
Clarks
Shoe retailer Clarks is planning to cut hundreds of office jobs as part of a major shake-up.
The 195-year-old high street retailer announced 160 redundancies globally in May, including 108 job losses at its headquarters in Street, Somerset.
The retailer said it expects roughly 700 employees to leave the business over the next 18 months, after creating 200 new roles.
Clarks, which trades from around 345 stores in the 海角视频, said the move is intended to help the company operate in a "lean, effective and quick manner".
Mulberry
Fashion business Mulberry is planning to cut around 25 per cent of its global workforce as it battles with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on its business.
The Somerset-headquartered firm has launched a consultation on plans to reduce its workforce of around 1,500 staff by a quarter.
Thierry Andretta, Mulberry's chief executive, said: “In spite of the good performance of our sector leading digital and omni-channel platform, and our global network of digital concessions, the shutting of all our physical stores has had, and will continue to have, a marked effect on our business."
Shoe Zone
Discount footwear chain Shoe Zone stores has decided to close 20 stores. It has also carried out a redundancy programme at its Leicester head office.
The business said a double whammy of lockdown and supply chain disruption had pushed it into the red for the last six months.
The chain, which has 3,500 staff, was suffering the effects of the coronavirus even before the lockdown was imposed as shoppers stayed at home.
Accenture
The management consultancy firm is reportedly axing 900 jobs in the 海角视频
According to the Guardian, the 海角视频 job cuts will be at all levels, including managing directors, and across all parts of the business.
Consultation will reportedly start in the middle of July, with between 700 and 900 people to leave the business by September.
Accenture employs 11,000 people in Britain.
Arcadia Group
The fashion group which includes Topshop ad Dorothy Perkins is reportedly axing 500 head office jobs.
The company told Reuters: “Due to the impact of Covid-19 on our business including the closure for over three months of all our stores and head offices, we have today informed staff of the need to restructure our head offices.”
The group, which is owned by retail tycoon Sir Philip Green, reportedly said the cuts were essential in “very challenging times”.
Gregory Distribution
The Devon-based company is to make 100 workers redundant from its workforce of 2,700.
The distribution, storage and logistics company, which celebrated its centenary year in 2019, has seen a “significant” reduction in work from the effects of lockdown on it and the economy.
British Airways
The airline is set to make up to 12,000 people redundant. It revealed it was telling trade unions about a restructuring and redundancy scheme after global passenger numbers fell amid lockdowns and stay-at-home orders around the world.
Parent company International Airlines Group (IAG) said revenues for the first quarter fell 13 per cent to £4billion.
BA employs some 42,000 people around the world.
Royal Mail
Around 2,000 management jobs at being axed at Royal Mail as it looks to slash costs in the face of the coronavirus crisis.
The group said the job cuts come as part of a management overhaul under plans to save £330 million over the next two years.
The cull will affect some of its 9,700 managers, with senior executive and non-operational roles hardest hit.
Ryanair
Pilots at Ryanair have reportedly agreed to take a 20 per cent pay cut in an effort to avoid around 3,000 job cuts at the airline.
According to the Guardian, pilots’ union Balpa said 96 per cent of the airline’s members had voted to accept the deal to avoid job losses.
The deal was announced only hours after chief executive Michael O’Leary reportedly said 3,000 jobs could be saved if staff took pay cuts.
The agreement with Ryanair’s pilots saves 260 jobs (of a total of 330 pilot roles) that were under threat, according to the Guardian.
Ryanair is reportedly still in discussions with cabin crew and other staff.
Rolls-Royce
Engineering giant Rolls-Royce has confirmed that around 3,000 海角视频 jobs will go after opening a “voluntary severance” scheme.
It estimates that around 1,500 jobs will go at Derby and a smaller site in Nottinghamshire this year.
In May, the company announced it was slashing 9,000 jobs from its global workforce of 52,000 due to a dramatic slump in the aviation industry caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Meanwhile, 700 jobs will go at the company's Renfrewshire plant in Scotland and it will also be cutting 50 jobs from its Washington, Tyne and Wear plant.
British Engines
More than 200 jobs are to be cut at a Newcastle engineering group after the coronvirus lockdown hit demand for its services.
British Engines has opened consultations over 225 redundancies, saying it has seen a drop in demand that it expects to last for the foreseeable future.
The group - which is approaching its centenary - employs around 1,500 people at a number of companies around the North East.
Bentley Motors
Bentley Motors is set to make hundreds of compulsory redundancies after employees failed to come forward for a voluntary release programme.
The luxury car manufacturer is looking to axe 1,000 workers which accounts for up to 25 per cent of its workforce.
The company had originally hoped to achieve the majority of the redundancies through a voluntary release programme, but it has now confirmed it is 'some way short' of its target.
The car-giant has launched a 60-day compulsory redundancy consultation with staff. It expects to axe 300 contractors and 700 permanent staff.
Jaguar Land Rover
Hundreds of staff at J aguar Land Rover's Halewood plant are to be made redundant after the car manufacturer announced significant changes to its factory shift pattern.
The firm said the move from a 'three-shift' to 'two-shift' pattern will mean around 10 per cent of its Halewood workforce - which includes 4,000 employed directly at the Merseyside factory, and 500 agency staff - will be impacted.
The firm has said the change will bring "significant operating efficiencies", and that it is offering an "enhanced voluntary redundancy programme" to its workers. The changes will be fully implemented in spring.
BBC
The BBC has said it needs to save £25million by the end of March 2022 and is planning to cut around 450 jobs in England.
The broadcaster said it had already had to make savings of £800million before Covid-19 struck. It said the pandemic has added a further £125million to that savings total.
"No part of the BBC is immune to this savings challenge and other areas of the BBC are further ahead in terms of making savings than we are and their targets are just as difficult," it said.