Job creation and losses

Thousands of jobs are threatened at the music and DVD store Zavvi as it went into administration this week, it...

Japanese car maker Toyota has sparked fears of hundreds of job losses at its UK factories after it went into...

The CIPD has warned that the UK labour market faces an “annus horribilis” in 2009 after the latest unemployment figures...

The future of 27,000 Woolworths’ employees were hanging in the balance today after administrators feared all stores would close by...

Widespread recruitment freezes are expected in 2009 as the recession continues to bite, a human capital consulting firm has warned....

The planned break-up of Royal Mail may lead to 50,000 job cuts as the government unexpectedly agreed to part-privatise the...

The unemployment rate has grown to its highest in almost a decade, official figures have revealed.
The number of people out...

Former Conservative prime minister John Major has warned of an impending avalanche of job losses.Major told the BBC’s Andrew Marr...

Another tranche of job cuts have been announced as the economic downturn brings a bleak Christmas to thousands of people...

The number of financial services jobs created in London fell for the fifth consecutive month in November.
The Morgan McKinley...

A wave of job cuts is about to hit the services sector as the economic crisis intensifies, according to a...

The global economic crisis will decimate HR departments in 2009, according to a study published today.Two in five major firms...

Almost half of Woolworths’ support staff have been made redundant at the troubled retailer’s head office in London and in...

The future of 30,000 Woolworths employees looks increasingly bleak after Dragons Den entrepreneur Theo Paphitis pulled out of the race...

Japanese bank Nomura is to cut 1,000 jobs in London.The financial services group bought parts of the failed US bank...