Job creation and losses

Unions have condemned as irresponsible RBS’s briefing about a restructuring plan that could lead to 20,000 job cuts. The troubled...

Law firm Allen & Overy is expected to cut 450 jobs this year in a £44m restructure in response to...

Almost 450 jobs have been lost at music retailer Zavvi after its administrators were forced to close a further 18...

Jobcentre Plus has spent the morning at BMW’s Mini plant to take benefits claims from the hundreds of agency workers...

The Co-operative Group has confirmed it will close Somerfield’s headquarters as part of its takeover deal, in a move that...

Barely half of City professionals would willingly cut their own hours to save a colleague’s job, research has found.A survey...

Recruitment agency chief Kevin Green has defended the value of temporary work to the UK economy in the wake of...

Leeds City Council has announced plans to cut about 650 jobs over the next year. Smaller government grants and the...

Business secretary Lord Mandelson has announced a review into the productivity of British workers following a dispute over foreign labour....

Chicken chain KFC will create up to 9,000 jobs over the next three to five years as it embarks on...

Job losses have continued to affect industries as diverse as aviation, electronics, media and motoring this week.
Virgin Atlantic announced...

The government has set itself the challenging task of getting 360,000 unemployed people back to work over the next 14...

More companies have announced UK job losses, adding further to the gloom surrounding the labour market.Consultant engineers WS Atkins announced...

Struggling bank Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), which was recently rescued by government funds, has started talking to staff about...

UK unemployment reached 1.97 million between October and December, up 146,000 on the previous quarter, according to figures from the...