Business performance

The Home Office has spent a “shocking” £400m on consultancy fees over the past four years, it emerged today.The National...

The new 50% tax rate has caused financiers and entrepeneurs to quit the UK at a rate of nearly 10...

Unemployment is unlikely to top three million next year as many experts had predicted, the Bank of England chief economist...

HR departments have cut the least jobs during the recession, with nearly a quarter having taken on extra staff, research...

British Airways (BA) is bracing itself for a Christmas strike by cabin crew after talks between unions and the airline...

Public sector pay rises will be capped at 1% for two years from 2011, the chancellor has announced in the...

Tough carbon emissions targets could force steel manufacturers to shift production and jobs abroad, putting the UK at a “serious...

Final salary pension deficits are making it more difficult for companies to recover from the recession and be competitive, a...

There will be no further job cuts at Vauxhall, the head of General Motors Europe has pledged.Nick Reilly, president of...

More than 1,000 bankers are thought to have quit RBS to join rival banks where they can earn guaranteed cash...

The government is reported to be considering raising the national insurance contributions of banks and introducing a super-tax on bankers...

Water consultants and contractors this week said they feared that they would have to cut jobs after the utility’s regulator,...

RBS directors are threatening to quit if the Treasury stops bonus payments to staff in its investment arm, thought to...

Administrators have laid off 36 employees based at Borders UK London head office. The bookstore chain was taken over by...

An overhaul in the way banks and big financial institutions are governed will have repercussions for other sectors and should...