You can apply for any number of the 426 jobs on offer in government this week. You can see a breakdown of sector and salary bands in the table on the right taken from the Guardian jobs website. Our non-job...

The chairman of the Local Government Association says an estimated 100,000 jobs in local authorities will go as a result of spending cuts.

Much ado about the Guardian's scoop this evening: a leaked Treasury document which forecasts that up to 1.3 million jobs could be lost as a result of the spending cuts in the Budget.  Or, to put it in the words of the document itself: "100-120,000 public sector jobs and 120-140,000 private sector jobs assumed to be lost per annum for five years through cuts." You can expect Lab...

Insiders say the company plans to cut around 100 jobs in total, although a Guardian spokeswoman said she did not recognise that figure. “100“. “Ooooh, is that a number?”

Today 600,000 local government workers go on strike. It’s quite an apt day seeing as we publish the non-job of the week. As you’ll see from the bar on the right, there’s fewer jobs on offer this week, but still...

Brown has announced that he intends to tax us by an extra £10 billion. ( Borrowed from abroad mostly and paid back with interest over the decade to come ). With this he thinks he will "create" 100,000 jobs. The cost is therefore 10,000,000,000 / 100,000 = £100k per job. Now government will get some of that money back in tax, and some will replace benefits that would otherwise have need...

As of writing the Guardian jobs website is advertising 527 jobs this week as you can see from the box on the right. The pick of the crop this week, and our non-job of the week, comes from Brent council:...

The government is today being urged to spend £6.3bn building more than 100,000 new affordable homes over the next two years. Such a move would offer a desperately needed boost to the economy, saving thousands of construction jobs and avoiding serious skills shortages, the newly formed 2020 Group said. The alliance of housing organisations, unions and local authorities said the credit crunch ...

Local government employers offer just 0.5% (07/04/09) Local government unions expressed bitter disappointment yesterday at a 0.5% pay offer by the Local Government Employers.The employers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have said that the offer, which is for 2009-10, will not be imposed,...

As many as 100,000 jobs could go in councils over the next three years as spending cuts start to bite, a leading expert has warned.