The UK government is set to unveil a £2 billion “kickstart scheme” to help unemployed young people into work.

?Employers need incentives if mass unemployment of young people is to be avoided, said The Institute of Student Employers (ISE).

?The UK hospitality sector could face around 320,000 job cuts as businesses attempt to recover post-coronavirus.

?Office workers are still optimistic about career prospects despite short-term redundancy worries, according to a new Robert Half survey.

Young people aged between 18-24 are likely to be the group who will be the most badly affected in terms of finding work in the COVID-19 pandemic-led economic crisis that we are now entering.

?The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) has helped lower income areas of the UK more than anywhere else, according to accountancy firm Moore.

?Fast tracking spend on projects such as broadband networks, green technology, transport and housing could create 1.2 million jobs by 2022, according to a new report by the Trade Union Congress (TUC).

Twenty unemployed people are chasing every vacancy in disadvantaged areas of the UK, up from around four people per vacancy before the coronavirus hit.

Job postings in the UK have risen slowly over the past four weeks to almost 963,000 in the first week of June.

The number of workers on UK payroll has reduced by more than 612,000 between March and May as impacts of the coronavirus pandemic set in.

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Making mass redundancies is one task that many HR leaders hope they never have to face, let alone during the greatest economic shock in living memory.