The private business sector has mainly been positive about government cuts, even gleeful at first. But, as we at the TUC have pointed out, the private sector will also be hit by the cuts.

Because Most Of Them Have Zero Private Sector Experience! How very revealing..., Why Obama's Team Seems To Lack Business Comprehension? In case you missed it, on a recent Glenn Beck Show, he had a graph that illustrated the percentage of each past president's cabinet who had worked in the private business sector prior to their appointment to the cabinet.  You know what the private b...

It Used To Be That Working For The Government Was Steady Work, Although No One Was Getting Rich. To Get Rich You Needed To Work In The Private Sector Or Be A Business Owner. That was then, and this is now. With private sector companies scared to death. With private sector companies scared to death about the future, the hiring of new employees and jobs creation seems to be a thing of the past. On t...

There are a number of examples of the Scottish Government and the private sector working together to deliver strong messaging, and we envisage more opportunities for private b

Commenting on today’s publication of the Equalities Bill, Liberal Democrat Youth and Equality Spokesperson, Lynne Featherstone said: "Efforts to tackle entrenched inequality are welcome, but serious questions must be asked about why the private sector is getting off so lightly. "A voluntary audit system for private industry is hardly worth the paper it’s printed on. We need to know whe...

The number of ex-MPs seeking private-sector jobs has surged to levels not seen since 1997, says a report by the advisory committee on business appointments

When private sector financial services have so obviously failed and when the private sector is sitting on tens, if not, hundreds of billions of cash it has not a clue what to do with it is very obvious that paying the private sector to manage the projects we need to fund our economy, to allocate

City headhunters are being used by the government to try to persuade senior business people to sit on Whitehall boards to drive through spending cuts, in an attempt to make better use of private sector expertise to eliminate public sector waste

Former government ministers who take private sector jobs should be subject to closer scrutiny to prevent them abusing contacts for private gain, according to a committee of MPs.

Fears about the worsening state of the Welsh economy have been supported by the latest PMI Wales Report from RBS, which showed that the region’s private sector economy was doing worse than ever. According to this authoritative study, indexes for output and new business both hit new lows in July, and Wales registered the fastest decline in private sector employment of any UK region. In July, ...