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Friday 23 October: Summer sales jump fails to fix profit squeeze as operators face 82% tax rate
Trade bodies warn that rising energy and food costs are swallowing revenue gains, while the government prepares a crackdown on unfair dismissal for new parents.
Correction: this episode said senior manager pay rose 6.7% alongside the fall in hospitality wages. That figure was not about hospitality and did not come from Langton Capital: it was from a separate Office for National Statistics analysis of pay for managers, directors and senior officials across all industries, reported by City AM.
Collated, not reported. Ops Club did not break these stories, the trade press did. This is a signpost…
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