Thomas Cook will close up to 200 of its 1,300 stores over the next two years as part of its “thorough review of the profitability of the UK business”.

While men benefited most during the initial post-recession jobs recovery in 2010, it’s been tough for both sexes in the 2011 jobs market and women have actually fared slightly better than men despite...

Councils are finding many ways to cut the pay bill without losing jobs, but further redundancies are inevitable given the sheer scale of budget cuts that councils have been hit with.

The axe will fall on 600,000 UK public sector jobs by 2015, according to the CIPD.

Total UK unemployment will increase from 2.62 million (8.3% of the workforce) in July-September 2011, to 2.77 million (8.7% of the workforce) in Q4 2012, a net increase of 150,000 in the jobless...

UK employers are scaling back on all employment-related operations, with fewer organisations planning to offshore jobs abroad and recruit overseas workers against a backdrop of less recruitment and...

On the anniversary of the Comprehensive Spending Review, the future for many public sector employees is still uncertain, according to recruitment consultancy Badenoch & Clark.

A survey of 760 employers and 900 London-based staff, found nearly a third (32%) of Londoners are concerned they will be made redundant in the next 12 months indicating the effects of the recession...

With the latest round of public sector redundancies, unemployment figures have increased to 2.5million.

Unemployment has increased by 80,000 over the quarter to July 2011, taking the number of unemployed people to 2.51 million, according to results from the Office of National statistics, published this...

A campaign to avert hundreds of job losses at a Derby call centre, launched yesterday.

The unemployment rate for the three months to June 2011 was 7.9%, up 0.1% on the previous quarter, according to figures from the Office of National Statistics, published this morning.