Job creation and losses

Councils should create more apprenticeships and ‘work taster’ programmes in response to rising unemployment, according to a council leader’s report,...

The slump in UK manufacturing could result in a further 140,000 job losses this year as output continues to fall,...

About 40,000 council jobs could be lost this year according to research from the Times newspaper. A survey of 106...

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HR directors slam government plans to force employers to advertise skilled jobs locally first;
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Mobile phone group Carphone Warehouse has announced that 450 jobs are at risk of redundancy, although the firm said it...

Centrica will create 1,500 ‘green collar’ jobs ahead of investing more than £15bn by 2020 in new energy technologies.The energy...

RBS has announced the largest annual loss in UK corporate history, signalling that substantial job losses are on the cards....

Two of the UK’s largest insurance firms have announced up to 1,650 job cuts in efforts to find ‘efficiencies’ and...

The owner of Topshop, Miss Selfridge and Dorothy Perkins will merge BHS into his retail empire to cut costs, potentially...

The service sector is cutting jobs at the fastest rate in more than a decade as the economic crisis intensifies,...

House of Fraser will cut jobs following a review of its retail organisation structure. The company, which employs 6,500 permanent...

Eight in every 10 employers believe apprentices help to generate higher productivity, a survey has revealed.The research conducted by the...

HR jobs at Vodafone face the axe as the mobile communications giant prepares for hundreds of job losses, Personnel Today...

More than 450,000 current and former Royal Mail staff have been warned that their pensions may be halved if plans...

More than a thousand police officers across the UK are slashing jobs despite the prospect of a recession-led crimewave.The redundancies...