Business performance

Wetherspoon’s plans to open 250 new pubs in the next five years, creating 10,000 new jobs, it has emerged.The new...

Ofcom has launched an enquiry into British Telecom (BT)’s £9m pension deficit. The BT pension scheme is one of the...

Unite the union has called on US food giant Kraft to guarantee jobs if it succeeds in its bid to...

Lloyds Banking Group has announced the closure of its Sussex House contact centre in Brighton, with the loss of more...

General Motors, Vauxhall’s American owner, has announced that more than 300 jobs are to go at the company’s Luton car...

BT has been criticised for spending millions of pounds on taking staff on foreign trips to reward good performance while...

Drinks retailer First Quench is to axe 2,140 jobs and close a further 391 stores after going into administration earlier...

The 2,000 workers at Vauxhall’s Ellesmere Port car plant have been told they will avoid job cuts and revert to...

Struggling airline British Midland (BMI) has announced 600 redundancies and the closure of its final salary pension scheme to existing...

Civilian staff are being used by police forces to investigate serious crimes, it has emerged.The new workers have already been...

The proportion of older workers planning to work beyond the state pension age has increased dramatically in the past two...

Up to a quarter of a million public sector workers are to stage a 24-hour strike in Ireland today. The...

School-leavers are not ‘fit for work’, according to Sir Stuart Rose, executive chairman of Marks & Spencer. Speaking at yesterday’s...

Employers have called on the government to create a centralised body that will work with them to tackle many of...

The chief executive of British Airways has warned cabin crew he will not compromise on proposed cost-cutting measures as the...