A Peterborough retail centre is set to create 800 new temporary jobs in the run up to Christmas, a recent news report in the local media has been able to reveal.
Retailers at Peterborough’s Queensgate shopping centre have gone on quite an impressive recruitment drive in preparation for the forthcoming shopping seasion.
A parcel delivery company has revealed plans to create 60 new jobs across the East of England, a news report has been able to reveal.
DPD has confirmed it is recruiting 58 new drivers to join its expanding owner-driver franchise programme in Peterborough and Snetterton (Norfolk), while also creating around 130 jobs in Dartford, Maidstone, Reading and Exeter.
Up to 1,200 jobs at a plant in Scunthorpe and at two sites in Scotland are set to be cut, the UK’s largest steelmaker, Tata Steel, has announced recently.
A Leicester-based solar energy firm that employs 1,165 people across the UK has called in administrators and is likely to render over 900 members of staff jobless, a news report has been able to reveal.
The Mark Group went under and Deloitte were appointed as administrators on 07 October.
Around 100,000 new construction workers will be required over the next five years for completing vital infrastructure projects, a recent report has been able to find.
The closure of SSI UK’s iron and steelmaking plant in Redcar will lead to 1,700 jobs being lost in the region, a recent news report in the local business media has been able to reveal.
The output in the construction industry decreased by 1% in July 2015 after increasing by 0.9% in June, recent data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) has been able to find.
New orders for the construction industry in the second quarter (Apr to June) were estimated to have decreased by 0.4% compared with Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) and increased by 1.9% compared with the second quarter of 2014.
The UK’s housing minister has urged more young people to consider a career in the construction industry, a recent news report has been able to reveal.
Mr Brandon Lewis made the appeal as he attended an open day at the Hodgkinson Brickwork Academy at Derby College.
He added the industry was improving again due to the Government putting housebuilding at the heart of its long-term economic plan.
The Federation of Master Builders (FMB) has urged local authorities and housing associations to increase the amounts they spend with SMEs, a recent news report has been able to reveal.
The FMB has argued that, while the Government’s announcement that every £1 in £3 is spent with small businesses is welcome, this only applies to central government contracts.
Fully automated time and attendance systems can help alert managers when staffing levels are expected to go under a pre-set level – for example, when workers decide to go on strike. And that’s exactly what might happen on the site of the Sellafield nuclear plant, where workers are to stage a wave of industrial actions over a health and safety dispute.