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The government showed an “astonishing” failure to plan for the economic fallout from a pandemic, according to a group of MPs.

Hospitality workers in the Unite union held a socially-distanced “Save our Jobs” protest on Tuesday of this week.

Centrica, The owner of British Gas, will tell thousands of workers to accept new conditions, including no extra overtime pay, or risk losing their jobs.

The number of people out of work in Britain has soared by nearly 650,000, according to new figures. The figure does not include the estimated 9.4 million jobs that have been furloughed on the government’s “job retention” scheme.

More than 60,000 ­workers were sacked or put at risk of redundancy last week. Some industry experts predict that as many as 250,000 people could be made redundant.

Workers are being pushed to make big sacrifices during the lockdown—but things could get much worse as unemployment bites. Tomáš Tengely-Evans spoke to some of those affected, and argues that the crisis shows why we need a different system

Workers fear they will be made to pay the price after Tory chancellor Rishi Sunak announced changes to the job retention scheme on Tuesday.

Workers fear unemployment and poverty if the Tories slash the Job Retention Scheme

More than 800 public sector workers are to be made redundant in the next six months, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) announced last week.

Benefits campaigners and trade unionists are demanding action to stop the closure of nearly one in ten jobcentres.

Benefit sanctions rob money from people who are already in poverty, leaving them with nothing. But there is resistance.

A new biography of MP and campaigner Ellen Wilkinson documents her fight for radical change—and how a commitment to parliament scuppered it, writes Nick Clark