Job creation and losses

France Telecom will hire 100 new HR advisers and work with unions to tackle workplace stress, following 24 staff suicides...

Marks and Spencer has announced it will recruit 20,000 temporary staff over the Christmas period despite tough economic conditions, The...

Gordon Brown has pledged to create 20,000 new skilled internships and ‘green’ work placements to help tackle youth unemployment.In his...

High street photographic retailer Jessops has announced a restructuring aimed at saving jobs. Under the terms of the restructuring, Jessops...

Now in its ninth year, the Top 40 Power Players aims to recognise HR’s most prominent and influential professionals; those...

The jobs of thousands of Jaguar Land Rover workers were thrown into doubt yesterday when the firm announced plans to...

The London Borough of Tower Hamlets and NHS Tower Hamlets are to scrap the role of joint HR director. The...

HR jobs at Sutton and Merton councils could be under threat as the London boroughs join forces to share their...

Speculation is mounting that more than 1,000 jobs at Vauxhall could be axed as part of Canadian parts maker Magna’s...

In 1992, as the UK struggled with its last serious recession, Personnel Today published the findings of a survey by recruitment company Reed. Almost two decades later, in the throes of another downturn, Reed has repeated the research. Tara Craig looks at what has changed, what hasn't, and whether employers have learnt from the lessons of their predecessors.

HR news and analysis including:

An exclusive interview with M&S executive chair Sir Stuart Rose
Government rules on work experience...

Public sector HR professionals should use the prospect of widespread job cuts to prove their strategic value to their organisations,...

HR professionals have backed calls for tax breaks to be given to businesses hiring the long-term unemployed.As unemployment reached 2.47...

British Airways’s (BA) temporary cabin crew will all lose their jobs by the end of next month, it has emerged....

Hundreds of police officers may lose their jobs as Scotland Yard hurries to save £20m, the Evening Standard has reported.Plans...