Thursday newspaper round-up: Jobs market, Uber Eats, Burger King, Brooks Brothers

The negative impact of the coronavirus lockdown on Britain’s jobs market appears to have been greatest in May before a partial recovery in June, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Both demand for and supply of labour were affected by lockdown restrictions, and the temporary closure of non-essential businesses caused demand for labour to fall, leading to fewer job vacancies, the ONS found, by studying job advert data from the online job search engine Adzuna. – Guardian

Uber Eats has joined up with Asda in the US tech firm’s first step into fast-track grocery delivery in the UK. The supermarket chain, which has previously tested takeaway and limited grocery deliveries via the Just Eat app in a handful of stores, said the new service would start in two outlets and could be extended to more if successful. – Guardian

Burger King UK's boss has warned that up to 1,600 jobs could be lost as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Only about 370 of the restaurant chain's 530 UK stores have reopened since the nation went into lockdown. Chief executive Alasdair Murdoch told the BBC's Newscast the economic damage stemming from the crisis could ultimately force the company to permanently close up to 10pc of its stores. – Telegraph

The taxpayer has stumped up £10 billion for the Government’s bungled test and trace system, it emerged on Wednesday night. Calls for an inquiry mounted after it emerged the taxpayer has also spent an “eye-watering” £15 billion on PPE amid scrutiny of the Government’s procurement process. Campaigners blasted officials for an “enormous waste” of public money after PPE and the NHS’s bungled testing and contact tracing programmes accounted for almost four-fifths of extra health spending. – Telegraph

Brooks Brothers, the preppy American clothing chain once owned by Marks & Spencer, has filed for bankruptcy. The 202-year-old retailer, which has dressed 41 of 45 US presidents, from Franklin Roosevelt to Barack Obama, and which was used for all the seasons of the Mad Men television series, has requested protection from its creditors and plans to cut 700 jobs. - The Times