AS MANY as 8,000 jobs could be at risk if the SNP government imposes a controversial supermarket tax, the body representing Scottish retailers has warned.

PUBLIC sector workers are to have their pay frozen for a year in a move the SNP government claims will save 10,000 jobs.

Tesco plans to create 10,000 jobs this year even after its weakest festive period for 15 years.

Worried about the economic downturn? Relax - Gordon has it sorted. Having saved the world, he now plans to create 100,000 new jobs. This wonderful new scheme revolves around public works, digital technology and environmental projects! Apparently school repairs alone will create 30,000 new jobs! Hurrah for Gordon. I also believe that wheat production will hit a new high this year and tractor output...

In a speech in Cardiff yesterday Ieuan Wyn Jones outlined plans to raise money that could be used to fund 50,000 new jobs in Wales over the next 4 years. Given the high levels of unemployment in Wales and the need to reinvigorate the Welsh economy, one would have thought that such a scheme would be welcomed by all. The only grounds that I can think of for opposing plans for such a massive and

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...

ALEX Salmond yesterday unveiled a £95m EU funding package that he claimed would create 8,000 jobs and offer another 75,000 people the opportunity to develop skills that will h

As many as 20,000 civil servants will be told tomorrow [thurs] that they are losing their jobs when the Government formally axes scores of quangos.

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...

Scotland can support 130,000 green jobs within the next decade, promises the SNP government's new economic strategy.