Economics, government & business

Fewer than one in 10 HR professionals believe the public sector has the right image to attract employees, according to...

A culture of apathy will doom the UK as the country's young talent yearns for TV celebrity rather than professional excellence

A new radio campaign is urging workers, who suspect their employer isn’t paying tax and national insurance, to ring the...

Union officials have threatened strike action ahead of Thurdsay’s showdown meeting with the Cabinet Office as they ramp up their...

Beleaguered sports car firm TVR has been bought by its previous owner after going into administration and jeopardising 300 jobs...

Asda is to create 8,000 jobs through the opening of 18 new stores across the UK during 2007. Andy Bond,...

A major drive to revitalise apprenticeships in food and drink manufacturing has been launched by the sector skills council Improve....

Electronics manufacturer Sanmina is cutting up to 300 jobs at its factory in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The US-owned firm...

The majority of nurses would be willing to take industrial action if they receive an unsatisfactory pay deal this year,...

More than 1.6 million people have gained basic skills qualifications through the government’s Skills for Life strategy, official figures have...

AstraZeneca, the UK’s second largest pharmaceutical company, is to cut 700 manufacturing jobs in a major economy drive. The drugs...

Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is being forced to recruit overseas because there is such a dire lack of science graduates in...

Bernard Matthews has laid off 130 workers just days after insisting that all jobs were secure in the wake of...

Employees at Thomas Cook and MyTravel must wait to see who will lose their jobs after the tourism giants announced...

Single parents could be forced back into work more than 10 years earlier than at present under new plans being...