Economics, government & business

The opening of a second national skills academy in the financial services sector next month is expected to trigger a...

CBI director-general Richard Lambert has branded the government’s attempts to tackle the skills crisis as “lame”.He told Personnel Today that...

The industrial relations agreement covering the 2012 Olympic Games construction project has been dismissed as a “load of waffle” by...

Airport operator BAA is planning to cull up to 2,000 jobs as part of a cost reduction exercise, according to...

The government is to roll out its Pathways to Work scheme across the country as part of its welfare reform...

Scottish Enterprise, the country’s main economic development agency, has launched a marine technologies training project to ensure there is no...

Nearly 80 jobs are to go at an engineering firm in east Belfast.Scott ElectroMech Ltd, an electric motors manufacturer on...

A date for joint public service strikes is unlikely to be set in time for the original target of the...

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Tube maintenance staff will go on two three-day strikes this September, after unwelcome proposals for redundancies and outsourcing look set...

Thousands of job cuts are expected in the UK’s financial sector as a result of the volatile equity and credit...

Business investment has seen a 0.8% rise in the second quarter of 2007, estimated to be 7.4% higher than the...

Up to 1,800 jobs are under threat at high street entertainment retailer ChoicesUK, after a decision to go into administration....

Almost 4,000 workers from Bulgaria and Romania were granted access to work in the UK between April and June 2007,...

The multi-million pound Train to Gain scheme is being held back by the way its much-vaunted ‘skills brokers’ are selling...