Job creation and losses

Demand for permanent staff has fallen for the first time in five years, indicating a further weakening of the UK...

The government has announced plans to save £30bn across the public sector over the next three years, including big savings...

Awards recognising outstanding contributions made by employers and employees working with the Local Employment Partnership (LEP) were handed out to...

Mortgage broker John Charcol is to cut its UK workforce by a quarter as a result of the credit crunch.The...

Civil Service unions have called on the government to halt its programme of job and budget cuts in HM Revenue...

The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has admitted that there could be a “jobs avalanche” at the end...

Unemployment could hit 8% within two years, according to research out today.The Capital Economics consultancy study warned that up to...

Thousands of UK employees are taking second jobs to deal with growing consumer inflation, according to an online jobs site.PeoplePerHour.com,...

A raft of top employers have been shortlisted for the first annual Local Employment Partnerships (LEP) Awards.Tesco, Nissan Motors and...

Employers are still struggling to fill job vacancies because of the UK’s major skills shortage – despite the economic slowdown...

Migrant workers have not prevented UK workers from getting jobs or had a significant impact on the number of people...

When companies go bust, is there anything that HR departments can do to ease the pain?My first job was making...

Up to 5,000 jobs could be generated to redevelop a former brewery into Europe’s first science quarter.
A £700m transformation...

Prime minister Gordon Brown this morning welcomed car maker Nissan’s announcement that hundreds of jobs would be saved by a...

The Workers Registration Scheme (WRS) should be scrapped, according to an alliance of employers, unions and migrant groups.The TUC, the...