RBS Cuts 1,400 Jobs, HSBC Co...

May 16, 2013

Edinburgh-based Royal Bank of Scotland plans to axe over 1,400 jobs during its next round of layoffs. The troubled financial services firm is currently 81 percent owned by taxpayers after it was baile...

Disabled workers protest fac...

April 21, 2012

As the Remploy website states, they are ‘committed’ to helping disabled workers find employment so with the news of planned closures within 36 of their 54 sites in the coming months, disabled work...

Minimum wage will not rise f...

March 19, 2012

Although it was a hard decision to make, according to Vince Cable, there will not be a rise in the minimum pay rate for young people. Rates are frozen for the moment for anyone under 20 years of age b...

Jobless rate slowly falling...

March 14, 2012

Jobs in the private sector are showing signs of finally offsetting the redundancies within the public sector. However, at the same time, millions of workers have effectively taken a pay cut and are no...