More jobs were lost and a leading car firm announced a four-month halt in production, ending another grim week for employment, with further cutbacks expected as the UK heads for an official recession.

Dave Osler argues , rightly, that the struggle for jobs seems to have been depoliticised over the past couple of decades. In the past, governments were committed to full employment and so high unemployment reflected badly on them. With increased faith in the market, though, this has enabled people to argue that it is not the state's role to ensure full employment and that the market will provide. ...

The recession will probably result in the loss of around one million jobs, an employment thinktank has warned.

Official figures reveal that the proportion of young people not in employment, education or training has changed little over the past two decades in spite of efforts to boost employment

Scotland's economy came close to a double dip recession last winter, according to official GDP figures.

Yesterday The Times reported that women were losing their jobs twice as fast as men. This was on the basis that the most recent labour market data show that from Sept-Nov 2008 the female full-time employment rate fell by 53,000 compared to the male full-time employment rate (which fell by 36,000)....

Unemployment is likely to rise above 3 million in the current recession, the Bank of England's labour market expert, David Blanchflower, warns today. His comments come the morning after the US Federal Reserve slashed interest rates to 0.25%, their lowest ever, in a bid to lift the world's largest economy out of deepening recession. In the UK, official figures are likely to show that the ...

In these grim days when so many people are losing their jobs it is important to keep our spirits up by remembering that there are still sectors of the economy where employment is buoyant.

As we move further into recession it’s all hands on deck to try to deal with the worst effects. The first priority is to do whatever is possible to keep workers in employment. Keeping a worker in work rather than them and their families having to go through the turmoil of redundancy and the...

The Scottish economy has finally fallen into recession, official figures confirm.