Job Cuts

How Many Jobs Is HSBC Going To Axe?

PA | Posted 23.04.2013 | UK

HSBC announced job cuts on Tuesday, impacting on thousands of its staff, over the "changing nature" of the business as well as regulation. The bank...

BBC Journalists To Strike Over Job Losses

PA | Posted 04.02.2013 | UK

BBC journalists are to go on strike and launch a corporation-wide work to rule in an escalating row over compulsory redundancies, their union announce...

Grounded: 400 BA Cabin Crew Face Job Cuts

Charlie Thomas | Posted 04.12.2012 | UK

British Airways has confirmed it will cut more than 400 senior cabin crew roles to solve an 'imbalance' within its staff. A report in the Sun state...

'Basic Worker Rights' For Civil Servants Could Be Slashed

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 10.10.2012 | UK

Civil servants could see "basic workers rights" slashed, including holidays, sick pay and child care, and even their jobs put at risk, with managers u...

Australian Paper Group Fairfax Slashes 1,900 Jobs

The Huffington Post UK | Charlie Lindlar | Posted 18.06.2012 | UK

One of Australia's most prominent newspaper groups, Fairfax Media, has announced it will cut 1,900 jobs as it attempts to adapt itself to the future l...

Jobs At Risk After Coryton Oil Refinery Refused State Aid

PA | Posted 15.06.2012 | UK

The government will not apply to the European Commission for permission to use state funds to prop up an oil refinery. The Department for Energy an...

330 Jobs To Go At BAE Tank Factory That Serviced WWI

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 31.05.2012 | UK

Defence giant BAE Systems is planning to axe more than 600 jobs and close a historic factory which made tanks during the First World War. The firm ...

BAE 'Bailed Out' On UK Workers

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 02.05.2012 | UK

Leaders at defence company BAE Systems were accused of not doing enough to save UK jobs at a factory threatened by redundancies on Wednesday. Hundr...

Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks To Cut 1,400 Jobs

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 30.04.2012 | UK

The Clydesdale and Yorkshire banks are to cut more than 1,400 jobs in the UK, their owner has said. National Australia Bank (NAB), which operates i...

HSBC Confirms 2,200 UK Job Cuts

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 26.04.2012 | UK

Banking giant HSBC today said it was "eliminating unnecessary bureaucracy" as it confirmed more than 2,200 job cuts in the UK. The bank, which empl...

Drugmaker AstraZeneca To Slash 7,300 Jobs As Profits Slip

PA | Posted 02.02.2012 | UK

Pharmaceuticals giant AstraZeneca said today that it will axe 7,300 jobs by the end of 2014 as part of a fresh round of cost savings. The company, ...

AstraZeneca To Axe 7,300 Jobs By The End Of 2014

PA | Posted 02.04.2012 | UK

Pharmaceuticals giant AstraZeneca announced today that it will axe a further 7,300 jobs by the end of 2014 as part of a new round of restructuring. ...

Debt-Laden Premier Foods, Owner Of Hovis And Mr Kipling, To Cut 600 Jobs

PA | Posted 17.01.2012 | UK

Mr Kipling and Hovis firm Premier Foods warned that it is to cut 600 jobs - 5% of its workforce - in a bid to save £40 million by next year. The d...

Bailed-Out RBS To Axe 3,500 Jobs In Investment Banking Arm

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 12.01.2012 | UK

Taxpayer-backed Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has announced around 3,500 job losses over the next three years in a bid to downsize its investment banki...

Women Hit By Local Authority Job Cuts, Union Says

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 25.12.2011 | UK

Women have been hard hit by local authority job cuts in England and Wales, accounting for 100% of losses in some parts of the country, a study by a un...

Sunday was About More Than the NHS

Flaminia Giambalvo | Posted 10.12.2011 | UK Politics
Flaminia Giambalvo

More than 2,000 people staged a sit-down protest on Westminster Bridge from 1pm on Sunday to highlight the health and social care bill, which is due to go before the Lords this week.

‘Salami Slicing’ Of BBC Is ‘Dirty Work’ Of Government, Say Unions

The Huffington Post UK | Stephen Hull | Posted 06.12.2011 | UK

BBC director general Mark Thompson has defended the decision to cut 2,000 corperation jobs and show more repeats by saying it can still deliver qualit...

University Embroiled In Bitter Jobs Row As Staff Announce Strike Date

Lucy Sherriff | Posted 28.11.2011 | UK Universities & Education

Around 500 union members at Middlesex University have said they will strike over jobs cuts and changes to staff terms and conditions aimed at cutting ...

Bank To Cull 30,000 From Global Workforce

The Huffington Post | Posted 01.10.2011 | UK

HSBC, the UK’s largest bank, has announced that it may axe up to 30,000 employees. The move comes despite announcing pre-tax profits of £7bn for th...

BBC Journalists To Hold Second Strike

Posted 30.09.2011 | UK

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- BBC journalists will stage another 24-hour strike from midnight tonight in protest at compulsory redundancies, threatening disrup...