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• Primark rejects UK government’s furlough bonus

  12-07-2020 19:58 via ft.com
  Decision by the discount retailer will put the response of other large employers under scrutiny
  
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• Primark turns down £30m windfall from job retention bonus

  12-07-2020 18:54
  
  Retailer says it isn’t necessary to tap into UK scheme paying £1,000 per worker brought back from furloughCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coveragePrimark will not take up the bonus offered last week by the government for taking back furloughed workers into full employment, declining a potential windfall of about £30m.The high-street clothing chain, which is majority-owned by the billionaire Weston family, said it “shouldn’t be necessary&rdq
  
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• ‘They just got away with paying men more …’ Milestone looms in Asda equal pay fight

  12-07-2020 09:08
  
  On the eve of a supreme court hearing for the UK’s biggest joint claim, former women shopworkers describe their six-year questFor years, Wendy Arundale was nicknamed Little Miss Asda. At one point her whole family, including her husband and two children, worked at the supermarket. She dyed her hair pink for an Asda breast cancer fundraiser. She ran a hotdog stand for Asda. The 62-year-old grandmother of nine from Middlesbrough spent 32 years of her life working at Asda. It’s fair to
  
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• May I have a word about… why it’s a bloodbath on the streets | Jonathan Bouquet

  12-07-2020 08:30
  
  Being on the front line of the pandemic is one thing, but must we really endure so much sanguinary imagery?I’ve already had cause to deplore the more purple-inked brethren of my trade for their hyperbolic use of the word carnage (which sadly shows no signs of abating - witness the following recent examples: “Carnage as cuts begin at HSBC in Paris”; “Leicester residents defy lockdown to cause ‘carnage’ in nearby town”), but now they have reloaded their pe
  
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