Economics, government & business

Drug maker Pfizer is to shut down its manufacturing operation in Sandwich, Kent, resulting in the loss of about 420...

Health Secretary Alan Johnson has called for more out-of-hours availability by GPs, saying current working hours are an “anomaly”.Johnson told...

Employers are handing out five-figure pay rises to keep young workers as the skills shortage continues to bite, experts have...

The holiday season is over (I almost called it summer, but that would be an outrageous misnomer for the rain-drenched...

Gordon Brown today announced a step closer to an autumn of discontent when a he told a hostile TUC Congress...

Indian call centre operator, Hero ITES, has pledged to increase its staff base in the UK following its multimillion pound...

Gordon Brown is to set out measures designed to achieve “a British job for every British worker” at this week’s...

EXCLUSIVE: The government’s multi-million pound ad campaign to drive up UK skills has attracted just 9,000 calls to the national...

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Business leaders have accused the government of allowing the skills drive to stall after it admitted that only 50...

HR news including:

How human resources departments in Manchester are helping to tackle gang culture
How the police are trying...

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A union head has warned Gordon Brown that he could pay a ‘political price’ at the next general election unless...

As the business world becomes ever more complex, so do the leadership skills that are needed. What are they?

Government actions since last year's Leitch Review on the UK's skills needs will do little to avert skills shortfalls in key sectors.

A £2bn investment in jobs and skills in England over the next seven years from the European Union has been...