Job creation and losses

Rail maintenance firm Jarvis is to axe 450 jobs due to a significant slowdown in workload.The York-based firm said it...

The move to create a unitary authority in Cheshire has caused “chaos” as staff do not know what jobs they...

A ‘protest specialist’ HR chief has landed a £100,000 contract to placate angry rioters expected at the G20 summit in London...

Virgin Media staff announced it is to close a telesales department in the UK, as part of planned redundancies, it emerged...

The HR department at troubled engineering firm Renishaw has been criticised following the latest round of redundancy negotiations.The company is...

Hundreds of staff at telecoms giant Nortel have been laid off with many receiving no redundancy pay. Nortel Networks UK,...

Unemployment will rise to more than three million by 2011, the Treasury has predicted.In an answer to a parliamentary question...

HR chiefs have doubled the number of HR staff they redeploy internally over the past year as a way of...

Another 15,000 jobs are expected to be shed from financial services companies in the next three months, on top of...

Jenson Button’s Formula One team is making more than a third of its staff redundant, cutting 270 jobs.The Australian Grand...

The government has announced £22m of new European funding to improve employment opportunities in the UK and develop people’s work...

The disparity between pay and recruitment processes across Civil Service HR will make it “very difficult” to create shared service...

Insurance firm Legal and General is set to make 650 redundancies, following an announcement of £1.5bn losses. The insurance company...

Hotel and restaurant chain Whitbread will create 1,000 new jobs in 2009 as well as launching a new apprenticeship scheme....

HR jobs at HSBC are under threat as the banking giant is set to cut up to 1,200 back-office jobs,...