Economics, government & business

Reports of major NHS job losses are misleading, and few people are being made redundant, according to NHS Employers

Margaret Hodge, Ian McCartney and Jim Fitzpatrick join the DTI as junior ministers

Nine months before London stages the Olympic Games it will also host the international skills olympics

NHS Employers defends consultants' contract in face of Kings Fund report of seriousl underestimated costs

In the third part of our in-depth series, Sally O'Reilly reports on the government's proposals to get a million people off incapacity benefit and back into work, and the likely impact on the UK's OH nurses

Communications firm NTL has confirmed that it will outsource or axe 6,000 jobs by the end of 2007 as it completes the integration of rival company Telewest

Most employers forced to join the proposed National Pensions Saving Scheme (NPSS) will need financial aid from the government to kick-start the project, according to a leading business group

Almost half of England's 411 local authorities still do not have a single person from black and minority ethnic (BME) communities among their top earners

Sector skills council spends £3m on diversity projects for the Audio Visual Entrepreneurship programme

Details expected on Tuesday as Sunday newspapers bandy figures

Around 20,000 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) working in the Ministry of Defence (MoD) began voting today in an indicative ballot for industrial action over job cuts and privatisation

Four Manchester NHS trusts have not ruled out compulsory redundancies as they struggle to balance their books.

Alistair Darling is the new trade and industry secretary following a radical Cabinet reshuffle by prime minister Tony Blair.

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister heeds call to stamp out bullying.

Amended Bill will enable ministers to act to cut down bureaucracy.