A survey by BBC Scotland finds that 10 Scottish councils expect 10,000 jobs to go within the next few years.

SCOTLAND'S councils are facing a cut of £305 million and the loss of 3,000 jobs over the coming financial year, according to a union survey on the public sector squeeze.

At least 25,000 English council jobs will be at risk in the next three to five years, a BBC survey suggests.

One of Scotland's largest councils - North Lanarkshire - warns that it may have to cut more than 1,000 jobs.

JOHN Swinney sparked further tension with Westminster yesterday when he claimed 9,000 jobs could be lost in Scotland as a direct result of efficiency savings announced in the

Rhodri Morgan AM said there are currently some 50,000 job vacancies across Wales, while Peter Hain MP said there are 23,000 job vacancies today in Wales. The Bevan Foundation makes a 5-myth list, which include. There are plenty of jobs; people just don't take them. Dr Winckler says: "2,000 jobs do not make a boom, the number of jobs in Merthyr and Blaenau Gwent has still not recovered from many ye...

MORE than 2,000 jobs in Scotland's oil industry will be safeguarded after China's biggest oil and gas producer announced an agreement with the owner of Grangemouth ref

NEARLY 2,000 jobs for the long-term unemployed will be created across Scotland after successful bids for funding, it was announced today.

UK Government figures show more than 800,000 people, with almost 100,000 of these in Scotland, have claimed incapacity benefits for more than a decade. This is almost one-third of the 2.65 million on benefits. In October, a survey further showed that long-term unemployed people in Scotland held out little hope of finding a job and almost 60% did not want to. (Herald) A disinclination to work is th...

SCOTTISH Secretary Jim Murphy yesterday said the Budget would deliver a 156,000-job windfall for Scotland through a major new environmental initiative and the transfer of civ