The Big Issue – the magazine, which has been bought and sold for personal profit by homeless people for 20 years – is now to be sold by jobless people as well, to give them an income and sense of...
The impact on the labour market of a slight rise in private sector recruitment is still being cancelled out by large-scale public sector job losses, according to this quarter’s Labour Market Outlook...
With this year’s financial budgets now confirmed for local councils, HR professionals face the unenviable and difficult task of making employee cuts.
Nurses have passed a vote of no confidence in the health secretary Andrew Lansley over HNS reform - and are refusing to rule out industrial action.
The CIPD has called on the Coalition Government to compile and publish a comprehensive administrative audit of public sector job cuts between now and 2014-15 to supplement the modelled forecasts from...
Redundancies loom as research shows almost 148,000 UK companies are facing ‘significant’ or ‘critical’ financial problems, whilst those with ‘critical’ problems alone are struggling with nearly £53...
It's like a runaway train: another week, another 'budgets slashed' announcement from public sector bosses and yet another HR department learns its fate.
With councils up and down the country, Tower Hamlets is facing a massive financial challenge. Reductions in central government funding have left us with a £72 million hole to fill over the next three...
The public sector is clinging onto its best people with its fingertips. So says Graham White, who is HR director at Westminster City Council - and he is not the only one. Unprecedented cuts are...
Northern Rock has entered formal consultation with trade union Unite and other employee representatives, on restructuring the business including the reduction of 600 jobs.
More than half of the UK supports the TUC's proposals for an alternative to the cuts – calling for a plan B to help get the jobless back to work.
The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) called today for a “radical rethink” of the way public services are delivered, to maintain front-line services at a time of austerity.
