Awards recognising outstanding contributions made by employers and employees working with the Local Employment Partnership (LEP) were handed out to Tesco, Mariott Hotels and Debenhams this week. The inaugural awards ceremony acknowledged the har  More...
03 July 2008 10:56

Mortgage broker John Charcol is to cut its UK workforce by a quarter as a result of the credit crunch. The firm said its headcount would fall from 275 to 206 in a restructure that will also see the closure of offices in Manchester, Birmingham and Su  More...
02 July 2008 08:55

Civil Service unions have called on the government to halt its programme of job and budget cuts in HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) following damning reports into the loss of child benefit data. Two independent reviews into the circumstances surround  More...
27 June 2008 08:50

The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has admitted that there could be a "jobs avalanche" at the end of 2008 - and warned that HR professionals were no safer than anyone else However, the institute questioned claims that a  More...
27 June 2008 08:19

Unemployment could hit 8% within two years, according to research out today. The Capital Economics consultancy study warned that up to 440,000 jobs could be axed because of the credit crunch. Bosses are desperate to make savings with costs biting,  More...
24 June 2008 14:00

Thousands of UK employees are taking second jobs to deal with growing consumer inflation, according to an online jobs site. PeoplePerHour.com, which helps people find freelance work, has reported a rise in registrations of people currently i  More...
23 June 2008 14:30

A raft of top employers have been shortlisted for the first annual Local Employment Partnerships (LEP) Awards. Tesco, Nissan Motors and Marriott Hotels are among the firms in the running to pick up a prize for their contribution to LEPs - the gov  More...
12 June 2008 10:24

Employers are still struggling to fill job vacancies because of the UK's major skills shortage - despite the economic slowdown in the jobs market, a survey has revealed. The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development's (CIPD) annual Recruitme  More...
12 June 2008 05:40

Migrant workers have not prevented UK workers from getting jobs or had a significant impact on the number of people claiming unemployment benefits, research has shown. A Department for Work and Pensions study, The impact of migration from the new E  More...
11 June 2008 14:00

When companies go bust, is there anything that HR departments can do to ease the pain? My first job was making books at a factory in Frome. Twenty years on, the BBC reports that the very firm, Butler and Tanner, is "history" and that nearly 287 staf  More...
09 June 2008 00:00

Up to 5,000 jobs could be generated to redevelop a former brewery into Europe's first science quarter. A £700m transformation of the site where Newcastle Brown Ale was brewed for decades will form part of the Science Central project, which underli  More...
06 June 2008 16:58

Prime minister Gordon Brown this morning welcomed car maker Nissan's announcement that hundreds of jobs would be saved by a multi-million pound investment at its Sunderland factory. More than £55m, including £6.2m from the government, is to be p  More...
03 June 2008 15:05

The Workers Registration Scheme (WRS) should be scrapped, according to an alliance of employers, unions and migrant groups. The TUC, the Association of Labour Providers, the National Farmers Union (NFU) and the Federation of Poles in Great Brit  More...
21 May 2008 11:06

Inflation targets set by prime minister Gordon Brown would force 60,000 jobs to be lost, according to a study released today. A report by professional services firm Ernst & Young's Item club used the Treasury model to forecast the performance o  More...
20 May 2008 15:13

Royal Mail's HR director has predicted that the current economic downturn will be good for the organisation's retention levels. Dermot Toberty, director of people and organisational development services at the postal services group, told Personnel   More...
15 May 2008 14:30

Northern Rock, the nationalised mortgage lender has begun consultations with unions and staff over plans to shed 2,000 jobs. Up to a third of 6,000 jobs across all levels of staff are to be axed by the end of 2011, however the bank suggested th  More...
02 May 2008 10:30

British Energy chief executive Bill Coley has placed his HR team at the heart of the company's bid to provide the UK's new nuclear power stations. Coley said the energy producer would strive to use British workers to run the new plants, countering fe  More...
02 May 2008 08:00

About half of the migrants who came to the UK from the countries that joined the European Union in May 2004 have already left, according to a major report. A study by the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) found that fewer migrants were arr  More...
30 April 2008 12:30

Nurses spend more than a million hours every week on paperwork which prevents them from frontline care, research has revealed. A survey by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) found that an increase in paperwork and clerical tasks is stopping nurses f  More...
30 April 2008 09:00

The trial of automated facial recognition technology in airports in the summer has raised concern for passport officer job losses. Airline passengers will be screened using the new technology instead of being checked by passport officers, in an  More...
28 April 2008 10:48

Police HR professionals face a daunting few months as controversial plans to merge forces in England and Wales are set to resurface, a chief constable told MPs yesterday. The head of the Association of Chief Police Officers, Sir Norman Bettison, sa  More...
23 April 2008 15:51

Outsourcing firm LogicaCMG will shed 1,300 jobs, including 500 of its UK workforce, in an effort to cut administrative costs. Logica said some of its 30 UK offices would close with many back-office functions, including HR and finance, likely to   More...
23 April 2008 11:00

Workers at the Fujitsu plant in Birmingham are to be balloted on strike action after the electronics firm announced plans to axe 140 jobs. Last week, the telecoms equipment division said it wanted to move manufacturing to the US to increase ef  More...
23 April 2008 08:02

The effect of the credit crunch is beginning to have a real impact on the headcount of firms outside the financial sector, new research has revealed. A survey of finance directors at 100 listed and owner-managed firms, conducted by financial s  More...
22 April 2008 14:19

The Met Police will shed 300 HR jobs as part of a major shake-up of the function aimed at freeing up extra cash for policing. HR director Martin Tiplady told Personnel Today that nearly a third of the force's 950 HR roles would be phased out. Thi  More...
21 April 2008 09:15

The majority of students graduating from university this year fear that a potential recession would hit their job prospects, according to a new study. A survey of 306 UK graduates by consultants Accenture found that 59% were concerned that a we  More...
17 April 2008 08:02

Retailer JJB Sports is to close 72 of its 416 stores at a cost of 800 jobs after reporting a 28% fall in annual profits. For the year to January, the Wigan-based retailer made a pre-tax profit of £33.8m, down from £47.2m over the same period l  More...
16 April 2008 11:45

The UK's 10th biggest mortgage lender, GMAC-RFC, is set to axe 280 staff as part of a cost-saving exercise that confirms speculation about a slowdown in the market. GMAC-RFC cut 200 jobs in October 2007, according to business website, IFAonline.  More...
16 April 2008 08:26

The credit crunch will claim 20,000 City jobs by the end of 2009, according to an economics think-tank. The Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) forecast that up to 11,000 jobs will be axed this year and a further 8,200 in 2009, w  More...
14 April 2008 14:03

The boss of beds retailer Dreams has vowed to continue investing in his staff despite most retailers being fearful that the 'credit crunch' will hit spending. Last week the British Retail Consortium warned of potential cuts in training and recruitme  More...
14 April 2008 07:56

Low cost airline Flybe has unveiled a number of new HR initiatives in an attempt to further boost its profile. In an interview with Personnel Today, HR director Simon Charles said he was planning a new recruitment drive to attract pilots and engin  More...
11 April 2008 07:38

Capital One Bank Europe is to axe up 750 jobs in its UK operation, including roles in its HR division, as the credit crunch continues to wreak havoc on the financial services industry. It follows a decision by CitiGroup, one of the world's largest b  More...
09 April 2008 10:48

Unions expressed shock at the scale of redundancies at BAE Systems, after the aerospace firm said it would axe 584 jobs at two separate sites in Brough, near Hull, and Woodford, near Manchester. BAE Systems said 450 posts will be cut in Brough  More...
04 April 2008 12:10

Moves by one of the world's largest banks to centralise its HR function has sparked fears that other banks may follow suit, leading to HR job losses. Citigroup revealed it was in the process of centralising its global functions, including HR.   More...
04 April 2008 09:23

The Retail Motor Industry Federation (RMIF) has announced it is in the process of buying back elements of its former training arm, ReMIT, from the administrators for failed training firm Carter & Carter Group. A major part of the Nottinghams  More...
04 April 2008 09:01

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been branded "incredibly short-sighted" amid claims it is holding back innovative welfare reforms. A local government chief has slammed the department's reluctance to support a scheme helping employers f  More...
04 April 2008 09:00

EXCLUSIVE Companies looking to boost the numbers of black and minority ethnic (BME) staff they employ should sign up to a Local Employment Partnership (LEP), according to the employment minister. Speaking exclusively to Personnel Today ,  More...
04 April 2008 08:00

Nearly 400 staff at The Sleep Depot, will have to look for new jobs after the administrator decided to close down the beds retailer. The company went into administration after failing to secure a new financing package. A statement from the Sleep De  More...
03 April 2008 09:19

The huge influx of migrants has hit low-paid workers and training for younger staff, an influential House of Lords committee has warned. A report by the Lords Economic Affairs Committee said record levels of immigration was also contributing to ri  More...
01 April 2008 13:40

InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has unveiled plans to create 4,000 jobs in the UK over the next three-to-five years in a self-styled "war for talent". The recruitment drive by the company behind the Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza hotels will help   More...
27 March 2008 10:33

The UK's new skills chief has denied that staff at the much-heralded skills commission have been forced to take redundancy in the run up to its launch next week. The UK Commission for Employment and Skills (CES) will launch on 1 April, merging non-de  More...
20 March 2008 14:24

Northern Rock's new chairman Ron Sandler has promised to "work sensitively" with staff and trade union officials to minimise the impact of up to 2,000 job losses announced today. Sandler revealed that up to a third of the troubled bank's 6  More...
18 March 2008 17:14

Mobile phone giant Vodafone UK has announced plans to shed a number of senior management positions, and HR roles as part of a move to simplify its operating model. Vodafone, the world's largest mobile company by revenue, said it would ma  More...
18 March 2008 16:00

Trade union Unite has warned it will oppose plans for compulsory redundancies at Northern Rock as the troubled bank prepares to announce job losses later today. New chairman Ron Sandler will tell up to one-third of Northern Rock's 6,500 workers tha  More...
18 March 2008 11:30

HR news and analysis including: Welfare reform criticisms – why minister James Purnell’s new rules may disadvantage the disabled Carter & Carter training provider: why did it go into administration and will if affect the skills sector? Inc  More...
14 March 2008 14:55

Alliance & Leicester has confirmed that its jobs cull of 300 staff from its mortgage division and the back office area would not affect its HR department. The mortgage lender, which currently employs 8,000 staff, has given people wishing to appl  More...
14 March 2008 12:48

More than 300 mine workers who lost their jobs after Northumberland's last deep mine closed, will share £2m in compensation following a High Court ruling. The miners, made redundant at Ellington Colliery in January 2005, after an inrush of water on  More...
13 March 2008 09:16

Troubled training firm Carter & Carter has filed for administration after it failed to reach an agreement with its lenders on additional funding. The company previously announced in February, that it was in negotiations with three banks regardi  More...
11 March 2008 15:08

Investment bank Lehman Brothers has begun talks with its London based workforce over redundancies as the threat of a recession in the financial services sector gathers pace. Lehman Brothers has confirmed its intention to cull 5% or about 1,400 of  More...
11 March 2008 14:35

Having read the recent article on job cuts at Birmingham City Council ( 'Birmingham to cut 80 HR jobs in equal pay shake-up' , Personnel Today , 26 February), my sympathy went out to those who will lose their jobs, as well as the difficult situati  More...
07 March 2008 17:15

A raft of new jobs at supermarkets boosted the UK employment market last month, figures revealed this morning. Recruitment firm Adecco published its Job Creation Index, which showed that more than 45,000 new positions were announced across the UK's t  More...
04 March 2008 14:10

Axe-threatened Northern Rock employees are flooding to the troubled bank's main rival, Personnel Today can reveal. Newcastle Building Society (NBS) has seen a huge rise in job applications and enquiries from Northern Rock staff since it was nation  More...
03 March 2008 10:00

Q We are a small company that unfortunately has to terminate the contracts of several employees. What should or should not be included in the termination package? If we are not requiring them to work their notice and are paying them in lieu, should that  More...
03 March 2008 10:00

After years of navel gazing, introspection and generally being roundly ignored by those at the top, it seems that HR's role as wallflower in the world of work is finally coming to an end. Following swiftly on the heels of last week's revelation that &  More...
03 March 2008 10:00

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will axe up to 12,000 posts over the next three years, the work and pensions secretary has said. It follows an announcement by James Purnell that the private and voluntary sectors will play a bigger role in   More...
29 February 2008 15:01

Former coalminers are being given a chance to return to the pits after UK Coal announced a recruitment drive at its Warwickshire colliery. Britain's largest coal producer said it wanted to hire 24 workers at Daw Mill Colliery to mine new reserves and  More...
28 February 2008 10:32

Unite general secretary Derek Simpson is this morning meeting with Northern Rock workers in Newcastle and Sunderland as the trade union fights against job cuts at the newly nationalised bank. Simpson has called on chancellor Alistair Darling   More...
22 February 2008 09:05

The number of fully trained operational personnel in the British Armed Forces has begun to edge upwards after a dip in the middle of 2007. The Ministry of Defence's latest figures revealed that it is currently operating at 96.9% of its full-time trai  More...
21 February 2008 13:13

Asda will create more than 9,000 jobs through store openings, extensions and business expansion, it was announced today. The supermarket giant's biggest jobs programme this decade will see 7,000 jobs created over the next 12 months through the openi  More...
21 February 2008 11:22

Unemployed people will be expected to undertake work-related activity in return for their benefits, under a new government scheme. Secretary of state for work and pensions, James Purnell, said in a speech to the Social Market Foundation that "avoid  More...
21 February 2008 10:09

One in 10 people currently working on the London 2012 Olympic Games building project was previously unemployed, official figures have revealed. Statistics published by the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) also showed that out of the current wor  More...
19 February 2008 16:30

Unemployed 18-year-olds face losing their benefits if they do not undertake at least four weeks of full time work, government has announced. Recently appointed secretary of State for Work and Pensions, James Purnell, told the House of Commons that   More...
19 February 2008 09:40

Human resources outsourcing is likely to increase if the current economic slowdown continues, according to experts. National Outsourcing Association chairman Martyn Hart told Personnel Today that employers would increasingly look to cut b  More...
19 February 2008 08:00

The union representing Northern Rock staff has expressed concern for their future following the government's decision to nationalise the beleagured bank. Chancellor Alistair Darling announced yesterday emergency legislation to temporarily bring  More...
18 February 2008 10:10

Fears about a global recession have caused employers to hire significantly fewer staff in January, figures from the latest European Monster Employment Index have revealed. Online recruitment fell across the EU against December figures by 16 points to  More...
18 February 2008 10:00

US investment bank Morgan Stanley has announced the "immediate" closure of its UK mortgage lending subsidiary Advantage Home Loans with the loss of 160 jobs including its HR function. The cull is part of a wider plan to axe 1,000 jobs as the ba  More...
15 February 2008 08:30

Up to 1,000 more police officers could soon be patrolling London's streets after the Metropolitan Police Authority had its budget settlement of £3.5bn ratified by the London Assembly. As part of the package the authority expects the Metropolit  More...
14 February 2008 15:48

Trade union Unite has hit out at Scottish & Newcastle's "ruthless" decision to close its Reading brewery The troubled drinks company announced plans earlier this week to close the site with the loss of up to 362 jobs. Unite insisted the pros  More...
14 February 2008 10:02

Record numbers of people were in work in the three months from October to December 2007, official figures have revealed. Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed 175,000 more people found a job in the last three months. The employ  More...
14 February 2008 08:03

Fears over the future of personnel services firm Midland HR grew last week after sister company Zeda was put into liquidation . The firm's management refused to deny that jobs were at risk at Midland HR, which provides payroll and people management   More...
12 February 2008 10:13

A sharp rise in expected redundancies will hit the UK jobs market hard, a survey has revealed. The winter CIPD/KPMG Labour Market Outlook survey ,  shows that almost two in five (38%) companies intend to make some employees redundant this quar  More...
11 February 2008 00:01

Northern Rock's staff trade union has expressed "deep concern" at rumours that Virgin has abandoned its commitment to avoid redundancies at the beleaguered bank. According to the BBC, staff numbers would be cut by about 1,000 if Virgin took ov  More...
07 February 2008 10:42

HR roles will be affected at BP, after the oil giant announced it would cut 5,000 jobs, including 1,500 in the UK. It follows a 22% slump in annual profits, announced yesterday by Tony Hayward, the new chief executive . Hayward said that the drive   More...
06 February 2008 14:34

Royal Mail has lost its second high-profile human resources (HR) director in a matter of weeks with Kevin Green's surprise departure from the organisation. Green, people and organisational development director for the letters division, is understo  More...
05 February 2008 08:00

Entire families on benefits could be hauled in for employability 'makeovers' by private firms as the UK welfare reforms kick in. Welfare-to-work specialist A4e plans to use techniques developed in poor areas of Germany to boost the number of jobs it   More...
04 February 2008 08:43

Graduate vacancies are set to increase for the fifth year running, in spite of uncertainties regarding the UK's current economic situation, research has suggested. The Association of Graduate Recruiters Winter Review 2008 , a survey of 217 of the UK  More...
31 January 2008 15:17

The immediate future of 850 employees at mail order firm Empire Stores is uncertain. High street retailer Littlewoods has announced its intention to purchase Empire's debtor book. The move follows an initial announcement by Empire Stores' French-ow  More...
30 January 2008 09:00

The union representing staff at Lloyds TSB has raised concerns over the future level of support to managers after the bank announced it was axing a third of its human resources (HR) team by the end of the year. The bank said the move aims to pro  More...
28 January 2008 11:52

Work and pensions secretary Peter Hain has resigned after his deputy leader campaign donations were referred to the Met Police. Hain quit his job minutes after the Electoral Commission decided it would refer the late declaration of £103,000 of   More...
24 January 2008 13:47

Unions have demanded 'meaningful consultation' after outsourcing provider Capita confirmed it is to close its site in Wythall, Birmingham, with the loss of more than 370 jobs. Capita said it would transfer work to India and other parts of the UK, in  More...
18 January 2008 10:34

P&O Ferries has begun consultation with its staff over plans to implement a new rostering system and potential job cuts at its operations department at Dover's Eastern Dock. The ferry group aims to increase flexibility of manning arran  More...
17 January 2008 12:37

Budget airline Ryanair has announced Birmingham International Airport as its 25th European base, a move that is expected to create 5,000 jobs in the West Midlands. The Irish airline will introduce up to 22 new routes to destinations including Pol  More...
16 January 2008 15:16

Engineering firm Rolls-Royce will cull up to 2,300 posts in a bid to reduce costs and improve efficiency. It is not known how many UK jobs will go, but the cuts will affect managerial, professional and clerical staff working in the business. The   More...
11 January 2008 11:48

Employers will not want to recruit people who are forced to work with them, the TUC has argued in response to the Conservative 'workfare' proposals. Tory leader David Cameron yesterday unveiled a series of measures he claimed would get the long-ter  More...
09 January 2008 15:30

Exclusive All migrant workers coming to the UK under the new points-based system will be told that the rules allowing them to stay could change at any time. The Home Office is to issue the warning in a bid to avoid a repeat of the em­barr&s  More...
07 January 2008 11:17

A grim warning that 2008 will be the worst year for employment since Labour came to power in 1997 has been sounded by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). Higher fuel and food prices will squeeze incomes over the next few mo  More...
07 January 2008 10:00

A leading employers' organisation has urged the government to stand firm in 2008 under increasing union pressure to implement employee-friendly European Union legislation. Trade unions have been pushing strongly for the introduction of the Agenc  More...
07 January 2008 10:00

Unemployment will rise next year rather than falling, as previously thought, according the CBI. The employers' group today downgraded its forecast for economic growth in 2008 due to the credit crunch and high oil prices. It said that the number o  More...
17 December 2007 12:38

If your lunchtime Christmas shopping seems to be made impossible by long queues at the till this December, it could be because stores are hiring far fewer staff than normal. Retail vacancies on jobs website AdCourier only rose by 10% between August  More...
14 December 2007 08:58

Statistics Commission confirms migrants benefited most from new employment opportunities More...  More...
12 December 2007 15:00

The future of one of Nottinghamshire's last collieries has been secured with the signing of a £200m deal. Thoresby, which is owned by UK Coal, will supply EDF Energy with four million tonnes of coal by 2012. Managers at UK Coal said the deal woul  More...
12 December 2007 10:30

Rykneld Homes, a housing management firm based in Derbyshire, will axe up to 50 jobs out of a total 327 as a part of a cost-cutting measure. Rykneld, which began operation in April serving about 8,300 customers on behalf of North East Derbyshire Dist  More...
11 December 2007 09:30

Work and pensions secretary Peter Hain has admitted that the disabled workers whose jobs he saved still face an uncertain future. Hain told Personnel Today that keeping 55 of Remploy's 83 factories open presented a major challenge for the publi  More...
11 December 2007 09:00

South West Trains has defended its decision to merge its human resources team from four offices between London and the South Coast into one. The train operator insisted the move had benefited the company and that morale in the department was good - d  More...
11 December 2007 08:30

The government has insisted its shared services agenda is on track despite a critical report by the public spending watchdog on the lack of progress. The National Audit Office (NAO) found government departments had been slow to adopt shared service  More...
11 December 2007 08:00

Half of the UK's most improved city economies in the last decade, in terms of employment growth, are in the north, according to new research. Milton Keynes heads the list of UK town and cities recording the strongest employment growth, accordi  More...
10 December 2007 16:07

Fears that domestic legislation will be passed giving temporary workers full employment rights have grown after EU ministers failed to reach agreement on the Agency Workers Directive last week. The UK government was one of the few that opposed th  More...
10 December 2007 10:30

Local councils are to share a new £1.5bn fund as part of a government drive to get long-term unemployed people back into work. Local government minister John Healey announced that 66 local and 21 transitional authorities will receive a share of th  More...
07 December 2007 14:50

The government has approved Remploy management's modernisation plan, which confirms the closure of 28 factories employing disabled people. Work and pensions secretary Peter Hain this afternoon revealed that the proposals - bitterly opposed by  More...
29 November 2007 15:58

Insurer Prudential will transfer 1,750 UK jobs to outsourcing company Capita as part of a cost-cutting plan. Prudential said the 15-year contract, worth £722m, would save it £60m a year from 2010, extending to an annual saving of £195m b  More...
29 November 2007 15:53

Group human resources director Frank Douglas will be forced to leave his new job at drinks business Scottish and Newcastle (S&N) just months after being appointed - if the planned takeover  bid is successful . Douglas joined the i  More...
27 November 2007 14:47

Skilled workers may be discouraged from coming to the UK, experts have warned, following changes to the immigration system announced by the Home Office last week. The government has set out a new approach for employers that want to sponsor immigran  More...
27 November 2007 09:30

The threat to tens of thousands of British jobs through the takeover of Jaguar and Land Rover illustrates the risks of giving temporary workers full employment rights, manufacturers have warned. Employers body the EEF said that without the ability to  More...
27 November 2007 08:20

The increased use of private sector firms to get unemployed people back into work has been backed by a senior HR professional after a successful trial. Mark James, recruitment and development manager at retailer John Lewis's Sheffield store, said pr  More...
27 November 2007 08:10

Workers at luxury car manufacturer Rolls-Royce will stage a protest over plans to close a plant in Bootle, Merseyside. Up to 212 jobs will be lost at the site, which manufactures turbines for the oil and gas industries, as Rolls-Royce aims to  More...
27 November 2007 00:00

A cull of human resources (HR) staff as part of a shake-up at Nottinghamshire County Council will continue to put pressure on the function until the end of 2008, according to its HR director. The council has axed 32 HR jobs out of 260, including ad  More...
26 November 2007 10:00

Companies face being hit with a £10,000 fine for each illegal worker they unwittingly hire after the government confirmed that new rules will come into force from February 2008. The Home Office last week announced full details of its tough new immi  More...
26 November 2007 09:50

Tens of thousands of jobs are threatened by the sale of iconic British car makers Jaguar and Land Rover, business secretary John Hutton has admitted. Indian firm Mahindra and Mahindra was today reported to have joined the bidding for the strug  More...
21 November 2007 11:01

The main Civil Service union has said the loss of millions of child benefit records by officials at HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is due to lack of resources and job cuts. Yesterday (20 November) chancellor Alistair Darling revealed that two comput  More...
21 November 2007 09:52

A flagship welfare-to-work programme has been dubbed a 'revolving door' following a report that found nearly half of its beneficiaries became unemployed again within six months of joining the scheme. Research conducted by the National Audit Office  More...
15 November 2007 12:15

Widespread redundancies are believed to be imminent at building contractor Alfred McAlpine, following a £600m takeover deal with Carillion, according to construction business publication Contract Journal . McAlpine has 8,500 staff and 33 o  More...
07 November 2007 14:02

The number of people working for a charity, voluntary organisation or community groups has rocketed in the past 10 years. The UK Voluntary Sector Workforce Almanac 2007 , published by the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO), showed  More...
01 November 2007 09:42

Staging the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games will directly benefit the careers of as many as 20,000 Londoners, according to Mayor of London Ken Livingstone . Livingstone announced the launch of 'Personal Best', a programme that is set to   More...
31 October 2007 10:51

Nearly 200 of the job cuts planned by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) could come from corporate services - including human resources - causing a "detrimental impact" on Britain's front line, the department's main union has warned. Personneltoday.com r  More...
29 October 2007 11:00

Remploy human resources chief Anne Jessopp has rubbished union claims that the troubled employer wants to pay disabled people to sit at home. Talks over Remploy's future broke down when unions failed to agree to a modernisation plan that would see 28  More...
29 October 2007 10:00

Making staff redundant just became much tougher after a landmark ruling moved the UK closer to continental-style employment laws. A decision by the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) last week significantly changed employers' obligations when consul  More...
29 October 2007 09:18

Calls for a large-scale cull of badgers to tackle bovine TB could be thwarted by a lack of available workers to carry it out, the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union has warned. Last week, the government's chief scientist David King said badgers   More...
29 October 2007 00:00

Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline has announced major job cuts as part of a £1.5bn cost-cutting plan, following poor sales results for its diabetes treatment Avandia. GSK said it would slash jobs as part of a drive to save up to £700m in ann  More...
25 October 2007 11:16

Oil giant BP is to axe 350 jobs from the 2,100 staff at its North Sea headquarters in Aberdeen. The firm's North Sea oil production has dropped to 350,000 barrels a day from 550,000 barrels in 2004. Last month the UK based firm said it wo  More...
25 October 2007 10:56

Gordon Brown's plans to create 500,000 new jobs for British workers may be illegal, according to a parliamentary report published today. A study commissioned by the Conservative Party , and conducted by the impartial House of Commons library   More...
22 October 2007 15:21

The BBC is to postpone sending out letters asking for staff to come forward for voluntary redundancy for a period of two weeks, after a meeting with its unions. Last week, the corporation's director-general Mark Thompson announced up to 1,800 jobs w  More...
22 October 2007 12:08

BBC trade unions have repeated their warning of strike action after plans to make up to 1,800 staff redundant in the next five years were revealed earlier today. Officials from broadcasting union Bectu, the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) and Uni  More...
18 October 2007 14:22

Unite members at medical supply firm Huntleigh Health Care will today lobby Parliament over the relocation of its site to Poland. The West Midlands-based company said it would outsource production from its site in Wednesbury to Poland, at a cost of 3  More...
17 October 2007 12:12

US-based internet company AOL is to axe 2,000 jobs worldwide in an attempt to refocus on online advertising. About 1,200 jobs will be shed in the US, including 750 posts at its headquarters in Virginia. The remaining 800 cuts will be spread across it  More...
17 October 2007 10:31

Employers must offer higher quality jobs as well as helping workers increase their skills, the European Trade Union Confederation has insisted. Walter Cerfeda, confederal secretary of the organisation, said that as people became more skilled, t  More...
16 October 2007 13:30

One in six head office employees at catering company Elior has been made redundant following a major restructure. Elior's HR director Paul Reynolds told Personnel Today that he led the redundancy consultation process , which eventually made 66 o  More...
16 October 2007 08:30

NHS workers facing redundancy should be guaranteed another job in the health service, according to NHS human resources chief Clare Chapman. Thousands of staff have left the health service in the past 18 months , with hospital trusts tightening t  More...
15 October 2007 11:00

The BBC is believed to be on the verge of announcing up to 2,800 job losses as a part of cost cutting measures. The Financial Times , which reported the figures, said the bulk of the cuts would be made in factual programming, including Planet Ear  More...
10 October 2007 10:51

Senior council HR staff have "major concerns" that top management positions will be available through open competition rather than internal transfer when 48 local authorities reduce to nine , according to an employers' body. Local Government Emp  More...
05 October 2007 07:58

Chocolate maker Cadbury Schweppes, will axe 700 UK jobs to reduce costs following plans to move some chocolate production to Poland. Its plant at Keynsham near Bristol is scheduled to close by 2010, affecting 500 workers, while Cadbury will also cut  More...
04 October 2007 12:07

Retailers will find it "very difficult" to employ new staff and may be put off hiring altogether as the national minimum wage (NMW) rises again today (1 October), an industry body has warned. A British Retail Consortium (BRC) report out today   More...
01 October 2007 09:55

Oil giant BP is to axe four layers of management in a radical shake-up following a "dreadful" performance in the third quarter, it emerged yesterday. Chief executive Tony Hayward , who took over in May, reportedly warned staff the group's latest set  More...
26 September 2007 11:47

The government last night offered hope to thousands of disabled workers threatened by the closures of Remploy factories. Work and pensions secretary Peter Hain received cheers from delegates at the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth when he s  More...
26 September 2007 10:57

Consumer goods group Unilever will axe more than 300 jobs over the next 12 months as part of a review of operations. The company said 140 people at Port Sunlight, Wirral, and 60 in Warrington, where Surf and Persil are made, would be affected, along  More...
21 September 2007 14:54

Leading human resources professional Martin Sawkins has left his role at the AA motoring services group, Personnel Today understands. Sawkins, HR director since 2002, becomes the latest executive to leave the AA since its £6bn tie-up with Sag  More...
20 September 2007 09:28

The controversial Agency Workers Directive (AWD) has been hanging over the British workplace for almost all of the new millennium but despite an uneasy cease-fire in recent time the battle lines are once again being drawn. The Agency Workers D  More...
17 September 2007 08:00

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14 September 2007 12:01

Six training and employment companies from the private and voluntary sectors have been awarded contracts to deliver the next stage of the government's flagship Pathways to Work programme. The successful contractors will deliver the programme in   More...
12 September 2007 12:47

Drug maker Pfizer is to shut down its manufacturing operation in Sandwich, Kent, resulting in the loss of about 420 jobs over the next two years. The firm said the move was part of its worldwide consolidation of manufacturing operations in order to   More...
12 September 2007 08:11

Indian call centre operator, Hero ITES, has pledged to increase its staff base in the UK following its multimillion pound acquisition of local operator, Telecom Service Centres (TSC). TSC, which has more than 3,000 employees in nine UK sites, the ma  More...
10 September 2007 12:04

Gordon Brown is to set out measures designed to achieve "a British job for every British worker" at this week's TUC Congress. In his first speech to the conference as prime minister, Brown will reveal plans to create 500,000 new jobs for British  More...
10 September 2007 11:31

Standard Life, the UK insurer, has cut 400 roles during the first half of the year, despite a 73% increase in profits to £461m in the six months to the end of June. The jobs form part of a plan, announced in March, to axe 1,000 roles to save £180m  More...
04 September 2007 14:43

The industrial relations agreement covering the 2012 Olympic Games construction project has been dismissed as a "load of waffle" by industry experts. The deal was concluded after a nine-month dispute between union leaders and the Olympic Delivery A  More...
30 August 2007 14:05

Airport operator BAA is planning to cull up to 2,000 jobs as part of a cost reduction exercise, according to an article in The Times . It said that BAA's parent company, Spanish based Grupo Ferrovial SA, told its seven British airports  More...
30 August 2007 12:47

Scottish Enterprise, the country's main economic development agency, has launched a marine technologies training project to ensure there is no shortage of engineering apprentices in the coming decade. The new scheme comes after a £3bn contract to bui  More...
29 August 2007 15:25

Nearly 80 jobs are to go at an engineering firm in east Belfast. Scott ElectroMech Ltd, an electric motors manufacturer on Ravenhill Road, went into administration last Friday after efforts to sell the company as a going concern failed. Ernst & You  More...
29 August 2007 14:44

Tube maintenance staff will go on two three-day strikes this September, after unwelcome proposals for redundancies and outsourcing look set to steam ahead. Members of the Unite union working for failed