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Weekly UK job cuts summary: 31 August 2026 to 6 September 2026

The tracker records 80 UK jobs proposed or under consultation and 42 confirmed or reduced in 7 published records announced from 31 August 2026 to 6 September 2026.

6 employers or shared programmes appear in these records. 5 records have no stated UK job number and 0 announcements are reversed. These records add no jobs to either total.

The calendar week is complete. This summary uses announcement dates and the latest recorded status. Later corrections can change earlier summaries. Month-only announcement dates remain in month and year totals and are not assigned to weeks. Coverage is incomplete. Totals use the stated UK figure, including "up to", "at least" and "about". How we count.

UK jobs proposed or under consultation
80
UK jobs confirmed or reduced
42
Published records
7
Records without a UK number, excluding reversals
5
Reversed announcements
0

Largest recorded figures

Proposed or under consultation: Morrisons, at least 80 UK jobs.

Confirmed or reduced: PureLifi, 42 UK jobs.

Proposed or under consultation

Jaguar Land Rover

UK job number not stated. Proposed. Announced .

All records for Jaguar Land Rover.

Sources: MSN; The Economic Times on MSN; The Economic Times on MSN; Bloomberg; The Times; Daily Express; Financial Times; North Wales Chronicle; BBC; Times Now on MSN; Times Now on MSN; Sky News on MSN; Sky News; uk.style.yahoo.com; AOL.co.uk; Auto Express; BBC; BBC; BBC; Bloomberg; Manchester Evening News; The Telegraph; thisismoney.co.uk; West Midlands Combined Authority; birminghammail.co.uk; mirror.co.uk; coventrytelegraph.net; The Guardian; Yahoo Finance; Coventry Telegraph; ITVX; The Coventry Observer; Female First

Confirmed or reduced

All weekly summaries. View the week data table.