Economics, government & business

Plans to axe more than 10% of Nottinghamshire County Council’s HR team will leave the authority in a complete “mess”,...

Six out of 10 workers in the UK’s private sector are male, while women dominate in the public sector (65%)...

Motor vehicle manufacturer Nissan will create up to 4,000 jobs through the sale of land and creation of a new logistics...

A consultation looking into all aspects of improving workforce conditions in local government over the next 10 years has been...

Dairy foods company Dairy Crest has confirmed its intention to close its Totnes plant in Devon, which will affect 164 jobs....

BAE Systems has teamed up with capability management firm, InfoBasis, to streamline its people management systems.
Implementation of InfoBasis Enterprise Skills...

The government has refused to guarantee there will be no compulsory redundancies following the creation of the Ministry of Justice...

Employers’ groups have hit out at the government for its lack of action on avoiding the skills catastrophe predicted by...

Employers are calling on the government to clarify the content of the ‘pledge’ that they will be required to sign...

Adding a dash of corporate social responsibility to training spices it up and makes it more meaningful.Karen Woolley, founder of...

The government has revealed that internal wranglings forced it to cancel talks with union officials over civil servant pay earlier...

Pay rises are set to remain modest in spite of indications that more employers expect to award staff increases of...

A new raft of vocational qualifications in food manufacturing is set to be unveiled to employers by Improve, the sector’s...

The government has been accused of burying bad news as it announced the closure of three debt centres at the...

The poor skills levels of school leavers is a national problem with “no silver bullet”, the Chartered Institute of Personnel...