Almost 100,000 manufacturing jobs will be lost next year as the UK plunges into recession, according to a report. The December 2008 Engineering Outlook survey by employers' body the EEF and advisory firm Grant Thornton shows manufacturing will be h  More...
01 December 2008 14:33

Thousands of public sector HR professionals could pay for Alistair Darling's Pre-Budget Report spending splurge with their jobs, it has emerged. Details buried deep in the report reveal that the chancellor is set to slash government spending on H  More...
28 November 2008 17:41

Employment and welfare reform minister Tony McNulty has called on the public sector to hire more long-term unemployed people and apprentices to fight rising jobless figures. Speaking exclusively to Personnel Today , he said state employers neede  More...
28 November 2008 10:19

Tesco, Royal Mail and Centrica are among the employers helping Gordon Brown to set up the National Employment Partnership (NEP) scheme, announced in the government's  Pre-Budget Report . Chief executives from private and public sector organisati  More...
28 November 2008 10:14

Staff a high street retailer Woolworths have been reassured they will be paid their salaries in full tomorrow, despite the company going bust. Professional services firm Deloitte has been appointed administrator to the 99-year-old retailer and Enter  More...
27 November 2008 10:36

The government has announced a moratorium on Jobcentre Plus closures and pledged to find 6,000 extra front-line staff to help people made redundant get back into work. Work and pensions secretary James Purnell told Parliament that no more Jobcentres  More...
25 November 2008 16:12

The government's Pre-Budget Report may not save any jobs in the long run, an expert has warned. Chancellor Alistair Darling yesterday announced a £1bn Small Business Finance Scheme to ease the effects of the credit crunch on employers and saf  More...
25 November 2008 09:00

Our weekly HR news and analysis audio programme includes: advice from a senior HR director about the function’s role during the economic downturn how a hotel chain is preparing for the UK losing its opt-out to the Working Time Di  More...
21 November 2008 16:50

Axed staff face lengthy spells out of work as the economic crisis hits the government's ability to get people off benefits quickly, a minister has admitted. Employment minister Tony McNulty last week said he was proud of the government's re-employ  More...
21 November 2008 07:37

Building supplies group Wolseley has unveiled plans for a further 2,000 redundancies in the UK. In a statement, the company warned of further deterioration in the trading environment, particularly in the UK where the group operates the Plumb Center   More...
18 November 2008 14:53

More than 2,000 UK jobs could be on the line as US banking giant Citigroup looks to axe 52,000 jobs. A 25-page document posted on the bank's website today shows that it intends to cut its global headcount from 375,000 at the end of last year to jus  More...
17 November 2008 16:26

A dire warning about the depth of the economic crisis was sounded by the CBI this morning. The business group predicted a gloomy 12 months ahead with unemployment getting close to 3 million and recovery not beginning until the last quarter of 2009.   More...
17 November 2008 10:00

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is said to be preparing to make up to 3,000 redundancies across its global workforce due to worsening market conditions. Media reports today say up to 1,000 jobs could to be lost in the UK. The global banking and m  More...
14 November 2008 16:03

BT has announced plans to cut 10,000 jobs by March 2009. The telecoms giant said the majority of the losses would affect "indirect labour", including agency, contractors, subcontractors and offshore workers. The company said it had already cut   More...
13 November 2008 09:59

The Monster Employment Index UK increased slightly last month, indicating unexpected resilience in the jobs market following the recent financial turmoil. The upturn halted a four-month decline with the index rising by two points in October to reac  More...
13 November 2008 07:11

The number of unemployed people rocketed in the third quarter of 2008, pushing the total figure closer towards two million jobless by Christmas, new figures have revealed. The number of people out of work rose sharply to 1.82 million between J  More...
12 November 2008 11:26

Nearly 5,000 job cuts were announced across sectors yesterday, suggesting the economic squeeze is becoming a harsh reality for many employers. Some 2,200 jobs at Virgin Media , 1,000 at Taylor Wimpey , 620 at GlaxoSmithKline , and a further 300   More...
12 November 2008 10:31

Directory giant Yell is to axe 1,300 jobs – including up to 350 in the UK – over the next 10 months as the global economic crisis continues. The Yellow Pages publisher is to reduce its headcount across all divisions as part of plans to cut co  More...
12 November 2008 08:02

The travel and tourism industry could shrink dramatically as a result of increased international competition and the global economic downturn , resulting in more than 100,000 fewer jobs being created in the sector next year. A study by professi  More...
12 November 2008 07:23

Almost twice the number of small and medium-sized employers (SMEs) have cut jobs than expanded their workforce in the last three months. The CBI's latest SME Trends survey found 17% of SMEs had added positions but 29% had reduced the employee nu  More...
11 November 2008 15:13