The Office for National Statistics (ONS) records show that that unemployment on the UK is still on the rise with the number increasing by another 244,000 in the first three months of 2009 to reach 2.22 million.
In percentage terms, this puts the number of people that are currently without employment at 7.1%. Claims for unemployment [...]

Official figures are expected to show that the UK economy shrank in the first quarter of this year at the same pace that it did in the final three months of last year, which is obviously not necessarily going to be good for business.
Analysts are predicting that the gross domestic product (GDP) will have fallen [...]

TUC has warned that, on average, for every job currently being advertised in the UK, there are 10 jobseekers.
Figures show that this is twice the number of people who were claiming jobseekers a year ago, when there were 4 jobseekers for every job advertised.
Though in some council areas, there are as many as 20 people [...]

Cut costs not a job…

Cutting costs seem to be going hand in hand with redundancies but that is somewhat of a drastic step when there are a number of other solutions to the problem without losing any employees.
After all it has been declared recently that it could actually cost a business more to make redundancies [...]

What is a recession?

We are well and truly deep into a recession now and so one of the first things we should all be aware of is the intricacies’ of what a recession is.  We all have our ideas about what a recession involves, but not everyone shares the same definition of the economic downturn [...]

Employment figures in the UK…
Unemployment in the UK has reached record highs of 1.97 million between October and December, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics.
Though the figure is less than the 2 million that was expected by analysts, it is still the highest level of unemployment seen in the UK in over [...]

The Chartered Institute of Personnel (CIPD) have warned that British companies are cutting jobs at an ever-growing rate.
More than a third of all employers in the UK are apparently looking to cut jobs in the first quarter of 2009. This number is twice as high as the number that planned to make cuts in the [...]