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Job losses

Consultation essential

Employers have been warned about the need to provide explicit information to any employees who are going through the redundancy selection process.   Selection processes will usually provide an overall performance score of the worker, however if the employer fails to give enough...

Further job cuts at RBS

  A further 2,600 jobs are to be axed at RBS, a move the bank says should be blamed on state aid rules.   RBS has said the majority of the job losses would be made in its insurance and retail banking sectors.   The Financial Times reported competition regulators in...

CBI urges Government to consider alternative to redundancy scheme

  Business leaders are urging the Government to implement an alternative for companies looking to make employees redundant and offering instead periods of extended leave on reduced pay.   The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) warned that unemployment would rise to more than...

Public sector to feel full impact of the recession, says CIPD

  The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has predicted that as many as 350,000 public sector jobs could be lost over the next five years.   Chief Economist of the CIPD, John Philpott, believes that “the public sector has yet to feel the full impact of...
 

 

 

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