Financial advisers at Co-operative Insurance Services to walkout in bid to resolve contract dispute.
Economics, government & business
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About 250 jobs will be lost at the Walkers snacks factory in Swansea after the company confirmed it will close.
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Staff in Jobcentres, benefit, pension and child support offices in London have voted to strike in a dispute over job cuts and deteriorating services.
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Sir Ian Blair has called for central police pay negotiations to be scrapped.
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The number of jobs in the British film industry fell by 20% last year, UK Film Council figures show.
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Work and pensions secretary David Blunkett has announced a new Office for Disability Issues to tackle disability discrimination.
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More than three-quarters of small- and medium-sized firms in the UK have not reviewed their business processes since the July terror attacks, according to research.
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The retirement age for people aged 40 or younger could be raised to 67 to tackle the pensions crisis, the Work and Pensions Secretary indicated yesterday.
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Whitehall reports zero redundancies in seven departments’ cost-cutting review
by dan thomasby dan thomasSeven important government departments have yet to make any redundancies of full-time employees in the past 14 months.
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Many of the 700 employees who have applied for voluntary redundancy at airline caterer Gate Gourmet are likely to be turned down, according to company officials
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The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) and the Sector Skills Councils (SSCs) have hit back at claims that they are not engaging employers
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The Learning and Skills Council is to cut 1,300 jobs as part of a £40m savings programme, it was announced today
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An advertising campaign has begun to encourage employers to give staff time off to serve as magistrates
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Unemployment levels in the US have risen dramatically as a direct result of the impact of hurricane Katrina.
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Staying in is the new going out as average UK pay fails to stretch to luxuries.