Efficiency drive 'will hit jobs'
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The first minister concedes that job cuts are inevitable in efforts to cut public sector costs in Scotland.
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More than 430 jobs will be lost at car giant Vauxhall in Britain, including 340 from Merseyside, under a huge cutback across Europe aimed at making savings.
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The greening of IT In the wake of the Stern Report, businesses are starting to take energy efficiency seriously as an economic issue, but research from Intel suggests there is still some way to go before this concern filters down to the IT department.â¦
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Unemployment is to go back over a million in 2007, figures in Gordon Brown's pre-Budget report reveal.
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The Bush administration expects revised data due on Friday to show the pace of job creation in the year leading up to March was much swifter than had been believed, economists who received a White House memo on the subject said on Tuesday.
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The government must review the help it gives manufacturing firms in a bid to stem job losses, says the TUC.
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More corporate fraud is likely to emerge this year as the result of the predicted slowdown in the economy, business advisers warn.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown is expected to set out measures designed to create 500,000 new jobs for British workers.
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The release of Microsoft Corp.'s   much-anticipated Windows Vista operating system will  drive $40 billion in economic activity and create 100,000 new  jobs in six European countries next year, a study said on  Thursday.
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Marks and Spencer, the clothing-to-food retailer, has revealed that it would create 4,000 jobs alongside news of a solid increase in first-quarter sales.
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New labor statistics show that productivity is slowing faster than previously thought, raising the question of whether layoffs are soon to follow.
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The U.S. government plans to hire  nearly 150,000 people in the next two years, but most will  replace existing workers while an aging workforce will  intensify competition from the private sector, a study released  on Wednesday showed.
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SHANGHAI -- Hunched over clattering machinery, the 170 workers at a factory here churn out gleaming pistons for auto engines by the crateful, driven by surging demand from abroad. To hear managers at Shanghai Datong Automotive Industrial Co. tell it, their success overseas is due to efficiency and...
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Renders to be realised next spring, firm pledges
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The Bush administration expects  revised data due on Friday to show the pace of job creation in  the year leading up to March was much swifter than had been  believed, economists who received a White House memo on the  subject said on Tuesday.
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According to economists and employment analysts, the job picture will be brighter next year.
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US employers will add jobs at a quicker pace at the end of 2004 and throughout 2005 than earlier expected, according to a survey of economic forecasters out Monday.