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

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

The finance sector's image has been scarred, and it could be years before it becomes attractive to applicants again, a leading HR professional has warned. Maria Bentley, global head of HR for investment bank UBS, said the sector's role in the econ  More...
28 November 2008 10:09

"Painful" wage cuts for millions of workers worldwide are expected next year, experts predict. The Global Wage Report 2008/09 by the International Labour Organization (ILO) predicts that global growth in wages will be just 1.1% in 2009, down fro  More...
27 November 2008 08:01

The nuclear industry has been hailed the UK's answer for revitalising career opportunities in manufacturing David Powell, regional vice-president for the UK at Westinghouse, which provides equipment to the nuclear electric power industry, said at   More...
26 November 2008 07:59

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

Gordon Brown has urged businesses to continue to upskill the nation's workforce as the economy plunges further into recession. Speaking at the annual CBI conference in London, the prime minister told companies they were capable of taking the Brit  More...
24 November 2008 14:10

A government immigration adviser has told firms concerned about labour shortages when the new immigration system takes over this week to push up wages. David Metcalf, chair of the Migration Advisory Committee, which drew up the migrant worker shorta  More...
24 November 2008 07:04

Plans to force the long-term unemployed, single parents and disabled people to seek work should be reconsidered, according to a senior government adviser. Richard Tilt, head of the Social Security Advisory Committee, warned that welfare-to-work ref  More...
21 November 2008 10:09

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

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

In today's climate, many employers are looking to cut costs without actually making redundancies. A short-term solution worth considering is the introduction of short-time working. However, while this can be an effective way to make savings without reduc  More...
13 November 2008 08:59

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

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

The number of jobs available to migrant workers will be slashed by 200,000 later this month, the government announced today. There will be just 800,000 positions available through the shortage occupation list when Tier 2 of the points-based system i  More...
11 November 2008 14:08

Luxury yacht builder Fairline Boats has drastically cut the hours of hundreds of workers due to the economic crisis. The Northamptonshire firm has announced that four of the its five production lines will work just two days a week from this week unt  More...
11 November 2008 14:00