Gordon Brown has provided new incentives for businesses in the country as he has claimed that half a million people would be given a bit of help to find either new jobs or training.  Brown has announced that the government will be making funds available to provide employers with up to £2,500 if they train [...]

Companies have been warned that the cost of redundancy is far more serious than firms would initially think, as the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development’s has discovered that the cost of letting an employee go and then hiring someone else averages at £16,375.
The Institute is aware that many firms fall back to redundancy as [...]

Unemployment rates are looking bleak this Christmas as Britain is expecting to have 2 million members of the public in the dole line over the festive season.
In the three month lead up to October the number of people unemployed in Britain took a sharp turn for the worse as the total figure jumped up 137,000 [...]

Official figure published later today are expected to show a rise in unemployment in the UK. The TUC predicts a rise of at least 30,000 people, pushing unemployment to around 1.75 million.
The government has raised an extra £100m to re-train workers expected to lose there jobs as the economy slows down.
The extra cash would be [...]