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Bosses at travel giant Tui under pressure to cut salaries after asking taxpayer to pay staff

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Bosses at travel giant Tui under pressure to cut salaries after asking UK taxpayer to pay 11,000 of its staff By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 21:55 BST, 12 April 2020 | Updated: 21:55 BST, 12 April 2020 Bosses at travel giant Tui were under pressure last night to cut their salaries and … Read more

Private schools furlough staff under taxpayer funded scheme while asking parents to pay 90% of fees

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Private schools are furloughing staff under taxpayer funded scheme while asking parents to pay 90% of their fees for next term – even though they will be closed in coronavirus lockdown Families left outraged at proposals by UK’s biggest private girls schools group Girls’ Day School Trust insists some parents will receive discount above 10% … Read more

Fashion bosses slash salaries after asking taxpayer to pay staff amidst devastating drops in sales

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Fashion bosses slash salaries after asking taxpayer to pay staff amidst devastating drops in sales By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 21:57 BST, 3 April 2020 | Updated: 21:57 BST, 3 April 2020 Hit hard: Topshop has recently turned to supermodel Lottie Moss to front its fashion campaigns Fashion bosses slashed their salaries … Read more

‘Sell one of your yachts!’: Outrage as billionaire Sir Philip Green asks for taxpayer help

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Sir Philip Green provoked outrage today as he demanded emergency taxpayer help to pay the wages of 14,500 workers he has furloughed during the coronavirus lockdown.  Furious Twitter users suggested the disgraced businessman should sell one of his three yachts, which include the £122million Lionheart, or use some of his estimated £1.8billion fortune rather than … Read more

Rishi Sunak’s latest coronavirus bailout package ‘will cost the taxpayer BILLIONS each month’

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Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s employment support package will cost the taxpayer billions of pounds a month, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said tonight. IFS director Paul Johnson said the final cost to the Exchequer of paying up to 80% of the wages of workers whose jobs were under threat from the coronavirus outbreak was ‘unknowable’. … Read more

Thomas Cook collapse to cost taxpayer at least £156million

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Collapse of travel firm Thomas Cook will cost the taxpayer more than £150million, watchdog says Department for Transport agreed to pay around £83million flying back people Other costs include £58million in staff redundancy payments  Public Accounts Committee chair Meg Hillier says: ‘‘lessons need to be learnt’  By James Salmon Associate City Editor For The Daily … Read more

Training ‘ghost’ teachers who NEVER take up posts in state schools costs taxpayer up to £123million

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Training ‘ghost’ teachers who NEVER take up posts in state schools costs the taxpayer up to £123million Almost one-in-ten teachers trained with bursary don’t take up state school posts  Figures show more than 11,000 ‘ghost trainees’ changed their mind on teaching Trainees for subjects such as physics are eligible for bursaries up to £26,000 By … Read more