(Source: BBC News)
British employers planned 58,000 redundancies in August, taking the total to 498,000 for the first five months of the Covid crisis.
Some 966 separate employers told the government of plans to cut 20 or more jobs, compared with 214 last August, a more than fourfold increase.
However, the figures were down from the levels seen in June and July, which both saw 150,000 job cuts planned.
The figures were released to the BBC after a freedom of information request.
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