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5 Things You Need To Know, Today, on Friday 3rd January 2020
5. A group of Amazon employees has said the company has threatened to fire some of them for speaking out on environmental issues.
Amazon Employees for Climate Justice said the workers were told they were in violation of company policies.
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4. Royal Mail expected yesterday, the first working day of the year for postal workers in the UK, to be the busiest for returning unwanted Christmas gifts.
Returns on “Takeback Thursday” were expected to be 72% higher than the average day in December.
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3. Britain’s manufacturing sector ended the year by shrinking at its fastest pace in more than seven years.
It was the eight consecutive month of decline, as the industry continued to grapple with the political and economic uncertainty surrounding Brexit.
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2. Half of apprenticeship courses in England have been accused of being “fake” by an education think tank.
The EDSK report says the apprenticeship levy – paid by big employers – is being used on low-skilled jobs or relabelling existing posts, rather than training.
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1. Oil prices rose strongly in the morning of Asia trading hours, following confirmation by the Pentagon that Iran’s top commander, Qasem Soleimani, was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad.
Iran’s Foreign Minister called the move “extremely dangerous and a foolish escalation”.
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