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 [...]

Sorry, it’s not working out…
As unemployment rates are rocketing sky high as businesses around the country are struggling to remain open, it would only seem fitting to dedicate some time to clearing the uncomfortable stigma surrounding making redundancies.
It can never be classed as an easy thing to do to make someone redundant, however in these [...]

Just do it!
The country is in a recession, the unemployment rate is on the rise to record levels and there are massive amounts of businesses failing to survive through the economic drought.  However, that doesn’t mean budding entrepreneurs have to put their plans on starting up their own small businesses on hold.
Rome wasn’t built in [...]

The Federation of Small Businesses has released figures showing how calls to their small business hotline have risen by a staggering 214 per cent a the country plunges further into a recession and more small businesses are being forced out of business.  The FSB have claimed that the calls are relating to concerns and issues [...]

The declining strength of the pound has become even more apparent over the last few days as the country has watched it’s worth drop against the dollar.  The pound has fallen to close to a 23 year low, standing at $1.3915 for every pound and 1.0688 Euros for every pound.
Compared to last summer, the figures [...]

Unemployment is spiralling out of control in Britain as the figures climb a little closer to the 2 million mark through the economic downturn.  However, the government is maintaining the message that the drought will be over soon and that things would ease up on those that are currently unemployed.
Between September and November of last [...]

Gordon Brown’s plans to make a fund available to businesses that are prepared to train the unemployed has been blasted by critics who are claiming that the fund is too little, too late.  Critics around the country are calling for the Government to do more to ease the impact of the huge number of job [...]