When firms cut 20 or more jobs, they must tell the government why. Since December, the answer was new technology 361 times · Issue 084 · Thursday, 5 November 2026
Facing redundancy? Ask which reason your employer gave the government
Three things to do, from this edition.
Ask which reason your employer gave. If twenty or more people at your site are at risk, your employer has to tell the government in advance and pick a reason. Ask which one.
Ask whether a person read your application. If you were turned down after an online test, ask the employer whether anyone reviewed it, and ask for someone to look again.
Read the week, not the hour. Set aside one sitting a week for news about your own work. A month read at once showed us more than a month of daily reading did.
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◆ The question underneath
Process moves drawn from this edition.
◆ Sources
- Drawn from this edition: Ground Truth on HR1, Economy on the ICO review, the editor's note
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◆ Also in Issue 084
- Matt Brazil I read a month of AI news in one sitting. It's why this paper now publishes three times a week
- Dr. Leah Sandoval When firms cut 20 or more jobs, they must tell the government why. Since December, the answer was new technology 361 times
- James Vahid All sixteen employers the ICO found likely to be rejecting jobseekers by machine have told it they've changed. It still won't name them