The union representing 1,600 workers who have lost their jobs with supermarket chain Morrisons says the cuts are a "direct consequence" of the company's takeover of Safeway.
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The Conservatives are planning to table amendments to the government’s Work and Families Bill when the legislation is put before...
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Talks will begin tomorrow to try to avert a strike by thousands of workers in Jobcentres and benefit offices.
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Employers have been urged to "detox" their workplaces, reassess their policies and tackle any problematic issues
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2006 could be the worst year for productivity growth since 1990, according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)
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CBI director general Digby Jones has urged firms to put a reassessment of business risk at the top of their list of New Year resolutions.
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Work and pensions secretary John Hutton has written to the MPs whose constituencies contain the most incapacity benefit claimants to defend proposed reforms
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UK job prospects look set to improve in the New Year, driven by an increase in confidence among the finance and business services sectors.
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The number of people out of work in the UK rose by 72,000 in the three months to October to stand at 1.49 million.
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House prices in London and the South East are causing a skills crisis as firms struggle to fill posts.
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IT staff turnover, recruitment and retention problems and skills shortages have all increased over the past year
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More than four in 10 of the 3.4 million vacancies filled each year in the UK are in service roles, sales and customer services occupations, research reveals.
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Efforts to recruit more NHS doctors and nurses in Scotland are likely to fail due to financial cutbacks, according to Scotland's spending watchdog
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The Cabinet Office, Department for Education and Skills and further education colleges are to work together to reduce the red tape faced by lecturers.
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More than half of employers fail to address dead wood in their organisations, according to new research.The survey of 400...