Labour hours analysis reports show jobs that are approaching their budget limit
The UK’s biggest care home operator is set to shut down because landlords owning all 752 of its care homes said they wanted to depart the group.
The UK’s biggest care home operator is set to shut down because landlords owning all 752 of its care homes said they wanted to depart the group.
Council workers in Southampton were aggrieved that they had to agree to new wage-slashing contracts and demonstrated against the city council. The authority’s leader Royston Smith said: "I acknowledge and understand people’s right to demonstrate.
New BBC Trust chairman Lord Patten wants the senior management wage bill reduced at the organisation. He added that "of course the organisation isn’t perfect" and faced financial challenges.
All but three UK stores at a struggling upmarket furniture business are being put into administration in a deal to sell it. Habitat is continuing to make a loss, with the company blaming trading conditions which “have remained challenging for retailers of big ticket items such as furniture”.
Predicted as part of a city’s new anti-poverty strategy, a report claims more than 6,000 jobs may be lost in Portsmouth within three years. The city council’s cabinet is discussing the findings, which say the losses are mainly down to government cuts on public spending.
Three teachers’ unions were among those taking industrial action across the UK today (Thursday, June 30). The government said about 40 per cent of state schools in England and Wales have been closed or partially shut.
Some 13 positions including manual, technical, administrative and managerial jobs are going at a prominent engineering company. Oxley Developments, which employs around 170 people across three sites, is understood to be considering voluntary and compulsory redundancies at its South Cumbria base just three months after making 31 people redundant.
The Commons transport committee said proposals to shut coastguard centres lacked support and would lead to a loss of local knowledge. Speaking about the concerns, committee chairman Louise Ellman said the committee had no confidence that they would allow the coastguard service to perform as well as or more effectively than it does now.
A council leader’s capacity to govern was called into question after he asked for a wage advance after just a little over a month in the role. James Alexander received £200 after making the request to York City Council last month. Mr Alexander said he had "run out of money".
A leading British sporting body has responded to accusations of its wage bill spiralling out of control. The number of staff employed by the British Olympic Association actually fell in 2010, from 57 to 52, but the wage bill went up by about £400,000.