Job creation and losses

Mobile phone giant Vodafone has been forced to speed up its £1bn cost-cutting plan to counter poor trading results in...

Thousands of UK employers are at risk from redundancy claims because they are unaware of the basic laws governing job...

However, over half of respondents expect a rebound in the economy by the middle of next year or sooner  The...

Four council HR functions will merge from this October in a bid to save £2.3m over the next five years.The...

BT will slash a further 15,000 jobs this year – most of which will be in the UK – after...

The government’s £1bn Future Jobs Fund is launched today, following the announcement that unemployment has risen to 2.2 million.Figures released...

Legal and General has announced it will cut another 560 jobs, just months after stating 450 positions would need to...

The number of HR job vacancies has dropped to the second lowest level in more than a year, despite signs...

Councils expect to shed another 14,000 jobs over the next year, on top of nearly 7,000 posts already thought to...

British Airways is to make more than 100 pilots redundant, with pay-offs of up to £150,000 each, because of the...

Jobcentre Plus will recruit up to 4,000 more frontline staff by 2011 in response to a surge in demand, Personnel...

Up to 2,000 UK jobs are at risk following the announcement by steelmaker Corus that its Teesside plant is facing...

HR news and analysis including: HR warns against jumping on the ‘green shoots’ bandwagon; Employers turn to incapacity benefits to...

The latest Monster Employment Index, published next tuesday (12 May), will likely show no improvement in the number of online jobs available in the HR sector. We take a look at what this means for HR practitioners, and what they can do to help the function not just survive, but grow out of the recession.

Nearly 5,000 carmaking jobs in the UK could be lost if Fiat finalises a takeover of General Motors’ (GM) European...