Oil giant BP is to axe four layers of management in a radical shake-up following a “dreadful” performance in the...
Job creation and losses
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Work and pensions secretary Peter Hain offers hope to disabled staff threatened by closures of Remploy factories
by Greg Pitcherby Greg PitcherThe government last night offered hope to thousands of disabled workers threatened by the closures of Remploy factories.Work and pensions...
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Consumer goods group Unilever will axe more than 300 jobs over the next 12 months as part of a review...
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Leading human resources professional Martin Sawkins has left his role at the AA motoring services group, Personnel Today understands.Sawkins, HR...
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Agency Workers Directive: A new push on the legislation controlling temporary workers’ rights
by Ross Wighamby Ross WighamThe controversial Agency Workers Directive (AWD) has been hanging over the British workplace for almost all of the new millennium...
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Six private and voluntary sector training and employment companies win Pathways to Work contracts
by Mike Berryby Mike BerrySix training and employment companies from the private and voluntary sectors have been awarded contracts to deliver the next stage...
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Drug maker Pfizer is to shut down its manufacturing operation in Sandwich, Kent, resulting in the loss of about 420...
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Indian call centre operator, Hero ITES, has pledged to increase its staff base in the UK following its multimillion pound...
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Gordon Brown is to set out measures designed to achieve “a British job for every British worker” at this week’s...
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Standard Life, the UK insurer, has cut 400 roles during the first half of the year, despite a 73% increase...
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The industrial relations agreement covering the 2012 Olympic Games construction project has been dismissed as a “load of waffle” by...
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Airport operator BAA is planning to cull up to 2,000 jobs as part of a cost reduction exercise, according to...
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Scottish Enterprise, the country’s main economic development agency, has launched a marine technologies training project to ensure there is no...
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Nearly 80 jobs are to go at an engineering firm in east Belfast.Scott ElectroMech Ltd, an electric motors manufacturer on...