Job creation and losses

The era of redundancies has now eased, but the UK jobs market is no closer to returning to proper health,...

More than 1,700 staff at off-licence group First Quench are to lose their jobs after administrators announced they are to...

Microsoft has announced it is cutting a further 800 jobs worldwide, including some in the UK, on top of 5,000...

BMI’s restructuring process has kicked off with the announcement of 158 job losses at the airline’s low-cost operation. The changes...

From last month, various New Deal programmes - the cornerstone of the government's active labour market policies since 1997 - were replaced by the Flexible New Deal . This will aim to help more than 200,000 long-term unemployed people into work each year. After 12 months of unemployment, claimants will be referred to private or third sector contractors, which will be paid by results to find them work. What does it mean for employers?

The Royal Bank of Scotland has announced it will cut 3,700 jobs at its branches. This represents 14% of the...

Firefighters in Merseyside will be balloted for strike action in a week’s time unless the fire authority meets the union’s...

The BBC will slash its £79m senior management pay bill by a quarter, cutting more than 100 jobs by 2013....

The owner of off-licence firm Threshers has gone into administration, putting 6,500 jobs at risk.
First Quench Retailing, which also...

Shell is on track to axe 5,000 jobs by the end of the year as part of a major cost-cutting...

US consumer electronics giant Best Buy has begun a major recruitment drive for the first of 8,000 UK jobs needed...

Tesco’s banking division is creating 1,000 new jobs in Newcastle following a decision to establish a customer service centre in...

Cheltenham Borough Council is to cut the equivalent of 14 full-time posts under a new shared services programme that will...

Jobcentre Plus, the insolvency trade body R3 and the Insolvency Service have joined forces to develop a system to share...

Up to 1,500 jobs could go at the Land Registry before the government department’s possible sale to the private sector,...