This week it emerged employers were planning to make more than 300,000 people redundant in June and July. The highest profile companies that announced new job losses this week were Pizza Hut, Pizza Exoress and Lloyds Bank. (Image: Getty Images)Pizza Hut said 29 of its 244 UK restaurants are closing, putting around 450 jobs at risk. A Pizza Hut Restaurants spokeswoman said: “We are doing everything we can to redeploy our team members from our Pizza Hut Restaurants locations that are closing and minimise the impact to our workforce. "These changes primarily reflect our existing plans to simplify parts of our businesses, which were in place prior to Covid-19."

Source: Daily Mirror September 12, 2020 06:00 UTC