It has been announced this morning that Blackburn with Darwen Council are to cut 500 jobs over the next two years as part of measures to cut £30 million in costs. Further job losses at the Council were rumoured in January, but were confirmed by council leader Kate Hollern, this morning. This...
Signs of continuing fragility in the local labour market have arisen this week as three businesses have announced new rounds of redundancies to affect employees in the North West. A couple of weeks ago it came to light that Blackburn based Thwaites brewery is to make 25 employees redundant. This...
In the current economic climate, a wide range of employers in both the public and private sector are continuing to look for long-term cost savings and making significant changes in their businesses. Such changes include redundancies, lay-off/short-time working and variations to employee's...
Blackburn with Darwen Council confirmed this week that they are to cut 1000 jobs over the coming months, equating to approximately one quarter of their workforce. Further to this, Manchester City Council have announced 2000 redundancies across their offices to meet the £109 million of savings...