The Prime Minister has announced a plan allowing those who have lost their jobs to defer their mortgage payments for up to two years. The plan is designed to give a breathing space to those who have lost their jobs - in order to find new employment - without the stress and worry of losing their house as well. 8 Major lenders have signed up to the plan, covering 70% of all mortgages in the nation. ...

UP TO 45 jobs are to be lost at the development agency Highlands and Islands Enterprise as part of a reorganisation.

Is this a situation where they both lose? Timmy always says that jobs are a cost, not a benefit, so is the fact that: for every green energy job created: 2.2 on average will be lost, or about nine jobs lost for every four created, to which we have to add those jobs that non-subsidized investments with the same resources would have created. In addition actually nine out of ten promised green jobs c...

The green energy plan,as compared to the nuclear plan, would create a greater number of jobs, as wellas keep the UK in line with other European countries energy plans. Green Deputy Leader, AdrianRamsay, has claimed the government’s nuclear plan “unworkable”.  This came as a response to BusinessSecretary John Hutton’s recent speech to the Nuclear Development Forum. Hutt...

More than 34,000 police jobs - including 16,200 officers - will be lost by 2015, HM Inspectorate of Constabulary research suggests.

The US job figures are appalling today - 240,000 jobs lost in the economy in October - and the first concrete reminder since the election of the scale of the economic challenge facing the President-elect. The rise in unemployment in the US is speeding up. It looked ominous when the January figures showed 17,000 jobs lost and by August it had really taken off with 84,000 jobs lost that month. ...

Automobiles: Made in America is getting harder and harder to find! Since 2008 over 6,000,000 jobs in the United States have been lost. Of that number over 2,000,000 have been in the manufacturing sector. These well paying jobs were lost as companies needed to cut employees because of lost sales due to the recession/depression or because these well paying jobs were shipped out of the country. The r...

The BBC is reporting that the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) plans to shed 2,500 jobs, ostensibly part of a restructuring of the bank: The jobs will be lost from its back office operations across the UK. RBS said it hoped to keep compulsory redundancies “to a minimum”, and said that there would be no cuts among

Gordon Brown today unveils ambitious plans for a 1930s American-style programme of public works to ease the pain of recession by creating up to 100,000 jobs. School repairs, new rail links, hospital projects and plans to usher in a new digital age by investing in superfast broadband will be used to keep unemployment down. The plans will also be used to tackle climate change, by means of investment...

Top Story Up to 51 million people could lose their jobs this year around the world predicted the U.N.'s International Labor Organization. The organization's best-case scenario was 18 million jobs lost. Developing countries will likely be hardest hit from the job losses. "We have to assume that we are now facing a global jobs crisis," said the ILO's Director-General. In an ...