The BBC has announced a huge shake-up of regional TV news and local radio in England which will lead to 450 job cuts. Changes will see one instead of two presenters fronting 6.30pm regional TV news bulletins as the corporation looks to make £25million in savings. Inside Out, the regional current affairs magazine show made … Read more
BREAKING NEWS: Economy adds 4.8 million new jobs in June, official figures reveal – but more than 19 MILLION remain unemployed as recovery hopes fade U.S. employers added a substantial 4.8 million jobs in June, and the unemployment rate fell to 11.1% Nation has now recovered roughly one-third of the 22 million jobs it lost … Read more
Call centres are booming in lockdown as they help companies deal with an unprecedented number of calls. British call centres now employ 1.3million workers, equivalent to four per cent of the UK workforce, despite the rise of automated systems, increasing online interaction and cheaper overseas options. One company, CallCare – with four centres in the North – … Read more
The Prime Minister begged bosses to hold off on cutting jobs yesterday after 12,000 staff were axed in just two days. Boris Johnson said firms should use the furlough scheme and wait until the economy improved before deciding whether to lay employees off. After a string of firms announced job losses on Tuesday, the misery … Read more
After the 2008 financial crisis, the strength of Britain’s jobs market consistently confounded the forecasters. In spite of below-trend output, employment climbed and the jobless rate dropped below 4 per cent. Covid-19 looks to have changed that. Each day the country wakes to a long list of companies shedding staff. John Lewis and Harrods are … Read more
John Lewis is expected to axe stores, workers and one of its headquarters as well as jobs at its sister business Waitrose while Harrods today revealed it must slash around 700 posts as coronavirus continues to choke Britain’s high streets. The bad news at two of the UK’s best loved department stores came amid disaster for retailers … Read more
British Airways has today announced it will switch all of its short-haul flights from Gatwick Airport to Heathrow as it looks to keep costs down in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. It comes as Ryanair threatened to cut 3,500 jobs if pilots and cabin crew don’t agree to pay cuts, the airline’s owner Michael … Read more
John Lewis is expected to axe stores, workers and one of its headquarters as well as jobs at Waitrose as Harrods today revealed it must slash around 700 posts as coronavirus continues to choke Britain’s high streets The bad news at two of the UK’s best loved department stores came amid disaster for retailers up and down … Read more
Boris Johnson vowed today to bulldoze Britain’s bloated planning system to help get the economy moving again. Relaunching his Government, the Prime Minister pledged to bring forward ‘the most radical reforms of our planning system since the end of the Second World War’. He said the move, which will see ministers take the axe to … Read more
Aerospace giant Airbus is to cut 1,700 jobs in the UK as the coronavirus pandemic causes ‘the gravest crisis’ the aviation industry has ever faced. The company is cutting nearly 15,000 jobs across its global operations to stay afloat as the coronavirus crisis rocks the air travel industry. The news is a huge blow to … Read more