Covid, furlough and Topshop collapse: 2020 in business stories

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From panic-buying to furlough, and the collapse of high street stores like Debenhams and Topshop, 2020 has been a year like no other for businesses

, saying the government should help workers "move forward" rather than stay in unproductive jobs. The scheme was later extended.for the UK economy. Between April and June, the number of people in work fell by 220,000, the Office for National Statistics had said.Outgoing US President Donald Trump consistently refused to publish his tax returns, the first to do so since Richard Nixon in the 1970s.

, which was due to end in October. The story said that more financial help would be announced the following day. In the event, the government announced an emergency jobs scheme that was less generous than the furlough scheme. However, it then changed tack again in November, and extended the original furlough scheme.

A pub curfew was brought in towards the end of September, which meant that all pubs, bars and restaurants in England were to shut no later than 22:00 each night.

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2020 has been a year like no other, full stop

All perpetuated by the joke media.

PLEASE DON’T BUY ANYTHING FROM DEBENHAMS ONLINE OR IN STORE

They are destroying our world for this:

As if you care!!! You're responsible for this as well due to your endless scaremongering and pro lockdown stance. The BBC, of course, is protected by the licence fee tax so you've no awareness of how hard it is to run a real business.

How about instead of these mindlessly boring tweets you run instead the great piece you did on Breakfast TV about this charitable appeal?

...and the BBC have been a massive contributor to all of this by not challenging the narrative with sensible rational science and pushing government propaganda. Well done. What a national treasure you have been 👏👏👏

Boycott Dirty China

These companies were in deep trouble before CV19. Try facts, not paparazzi fiction.

free-market forces=amazon and co

Debenhams has been in trouble for years

What it has proved is football match tickets could be much less!!

Is that Priti Patel calling the cops on a group of 7?

People loosing jobs but closing shops and locking people up is the answer. Tossers

All facilitated by the scum media

I hate 2020

Hated seeing businesses close but those closed I never went in! Also tens of thousands of businesses have been pulled!

We need to revive the manufacturing industry instead of relying too much on retail.

Tens of thousands of workers risk losing their jobs following the collapse of the Arcadia Group.

Yet somehow the shareholders are still alright, but tens of thousands of normal working people are out of their jobs, minds, and only have a bleak future to look at

Collapse of Topshop, Debenhams puts thousands of jobs at risk.

Can you show me it was worth locking down young healthy people?

Is Saffron polity core doc fasting-therapy?Prime Min abroad,says how well Govt run,felt alien yawn as new South Asian Assn for Region Coperate(well if Joe Biden biden sworn as India invite SAARC Heads)adds native role as dine as his quirk sup own-urine to cure Cong-Free-India vow

and the media has done everything it can to exacerbate the situation.

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