Job creation and losses

More than 1,000 staff at Ethel Austin have been made redundant after the firm’s administrator closed 114 shops. The fashion...

Leeds City Council is to shed about 300 jobs as it tries to cut costs in wake of the recession.It...

Reader’s Digest has gone into administration in the UK, putting 117 jobs at risk, following the collapse of a deal...

Unemployment figures will have to fall by at least 30,000 if the jobs market is on its way to recovery,...

Cambridgeshire County Council is set to cut 300 jobs in a bid to help slash spending by £95.5m over five...

Steel production at the Corus plant on Teeside will cease within a week, staff have been told. Teesside Cast Products...

Redundancies look set to almost double in the first quarter of 2010 as the downturn hits the public sector before...

Hundreds of jobs are at risk after Britain’s biggest children’s charity announced it would close dozens of offices.The National Society...

Kraft directors could face questions from a Commons business select committee about their plans for Cadbury and its workers. The...

BAE Systems has announced it will cut 230 jobs at a submarine shipyard.The news comes as the defence firm decided...

Fears that Britain may succumb to a ‘double-dip’ recession are unlikely to be realised, but job losses are still on...

Nearly 500 jobs are set to go at clothing retailer Ethel Austin and its sister firm, Au Naturale, which both...

Up to 2,000 jobs will be axed at Birmingham City Council in a bid to save £69m by April 2011.A...

GlaxoSmithKline will shed around 380 jobs as one of its research units in Essex closes. The pharmaceutical giant will make...

Cadbury’s new owner, Kraft, has confirmed plans to close the company’s Somerdale factory, with the loss of 400 jobs. Only...