Job creation and losses

Holiday camp chain Pontin’s is bucking the redundancy trend by creating 2,000 new jobs as part of a £50m expansion...

Several Jobcentres in the capital still face closure despite a government promise to keep them open to meet increasing demand.The...

Southern Water has decided to freeze staff pay to prevent job losses.The water supply company covering the South East of...

Car manufacturers will have to prove they really need government cash to top up the wages of workers whose hours...

Leading HR practitioners have delivered a stern warning to their peers that sickness absence should be low down on the...

Three-quarters of employers made job cuts in 2008, with the same proportion planning to do so in 2009, a survey...

The union Unite has finally secured up to £8.4m compensation for thousands of employees unfairly dismissed by Leyland DAF –...

I have been told by my managing director that the business is finding it hard to generate enough work to...

Small businesses are shedding staff at the fastest rate since the early 1990s, according to the CBI. The business group’s...

London Underground is considering cutting 1,000 jobs, including HR roles, partly as a result of the takeover of failed private...

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demonstrators protest over the use of foreign workers and failure of Gordon Brown to fulfill...

Energy firm Eon is to axe 450 jobs as part of a cost-cutting exercise.The company announced that redundancies will affect...

Engineering group Cookson is to cut 1,250 jobs worldwide, with the loss of nearly 180 jobs in the UK. Cookson...

Sky will create 1,000 new jobs this year as demand for its high definition (HD) television service grows.The broadcasting group...

McDonalds, Asda and Royal Mail are among the big-name employers that have made it onto the shortlist for the regional...