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• The Toronto Star needs its editors more than ever

  
  disassociated.com — Authority: 444
  A Toronto Star editor takes the red pen to a memo from management announcing the mass sacking of the newspaper’s editorial staff. It begs the question, how does the paper hope to manage without them?
  4 days ago

• Loch Striven ship dump: rolling story

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 443
  Update 18.00 12th November: Maersk Maryland and Maersk Maine are now both in port in Algeciras in the south of Spain. Both are showing Greenock as their next destination, with an ETA of midday on 16th November for Maine and 6.00pm on the same day for Maryland. This supports the information given by Stew in [...]
  4 days ago

• More of the write stuff from former Daily Record man Bob Dow

  
  milne media — Authority: 415
  MUCH has been said about Trinity Mirror on this blog over the years.  Sometimes praiseworthy, but more often than not some kind of ill-judged invective about job cuts affecting former colleagues. Its a difficult balancing act. After all, I actually admire how the company is pushing ahead investing in new ...
  5 days ago

• RUMOUR: Red Funnel To Conduct Redundancy Interviews Today

  
  Ventnor Blog — Authority: 152
  Red Funnel staff will hear today and tomorrow the outcome of the thirty day redundancy consultation.
  5 days ago

• Lloyds Banking Group slash another 5,000 jobs

  
  Andrew Reeves' Running Blog - but what am I running for..... — Authority: 530
  Just what you need to hear weeks before Christmas, "sorry you are being made redundant", but Lloyds Banking Group who have already laid off around 6,000 people this year are now laying off a further 5,000 and around 20% of those will be here in Scotland. These banking giants, which we now technically actually run, ...
  6 days ago

• Threshers shut 53 stores across Scotland

  
  Andrew Reeves' Running Blog - but what am I running for..... — Authority: 530
  53 Threshers shops out of the 219 across Scotland are now to close down. There will be 373 closures across the UK out of a total of 1,300 shops which will affect all of First Quenchs brands including Threshers, Wine Rack, Haddows, Bottoms Up and Victoria Wine. As most people know the parent company, First Quench went ...
  1 week ago

• Microsoft Announces Another 800 Layoffs

  
  EmploymentSpectator — Authority: 136
  Microsoft has announced another 800 layoffs to take place internationally. According to the company, the layoffs are coming due to a decrease in demand for its products. This year marks the first large-scale set of redundancies for the software giant. Earlier this year, Steve Ballmer, chief executive for Microsoft, ...
  1 week ago

• Oh Caroline

  
  The Plashing Vole: parataxis — Authority: 142
  Yesterday, I posted a newspaper article which expressed the rules about what constitutes a completing student, from 2006. A colleague has found the proper government rules - in force since 2004. Our V-C described all this stuff as unknown, arcane and not relevant to modular courses. Lets see what the rules state, ...
  1 week ago

• Another 800 jobs go at Microsoft

  
  VISTA.BLORGE — Authority: 496
  Microsoft has announced another 800 job cuts. The cuts appear to be across the board rather than through specific departments being axed. The new job losses appear to be a knock-on effect of previous cuts, rather than a new piece of axe-wielding. TechFlash , which broke the news, reports that the latest [...]Related ...
  1 week ago

• Welcome to Vichy

  
  The Plashing Vole: parataxis — Authority: 142
  As Ive mentioned before, Cry Wolf, my institutions student paper, is locked in a cupboard, bound and gagged in case some rogue student journalist thinks that 250 job cuts, ill thought-out curriculum changes, bigger classes and alienated teachers might, possibly, be news. Luckily, some thoughtful Walsallian (is that ...
  1 week ago

• Royal Bank of Scotland gets more state aid and lays off more staff

  
  LibDemBlogs — Authority: 175
  Edinburgh MP and Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling is about to pump a massive £38billion into the Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scotland. The Government is keen to get these two banking giants to restructure and sell parts of their empire off - as Tavish Scott and the Liberal Democrats first ...
  1 week ago

• Sacked steel plant worker’s ‘cry of anger’ becomes YouTube sensation!

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 717
  London, Oct 29 (ANI): A steel plant worker has instantly gained the status of a rockstar after the ‘angry’ song he posted on YouTube when he lost his job became a hit.The 49-year-old Christian de Mitri, from the Lorraine region of eastern France, penned the track and recorded the song at home and uploaded [...]
  2 weeks ago

• When the Irish Tiger stopped roaring...

  
  Birmingham Post - Business Blog — Authority: 467
  Blogged by Prof David Bailey and Dr Helena Lenihan News that the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) will release some €15 million in November to assist laid-off Dell workers in Ireland is welcome news for the workers who will potentially benefit (Im still scratching my head as to why we havent bid for ...
  2 weeks ago

• Job Cuts at Land Registry

  
  PJH Law - Employment Law Blog — Authority: 135
  It has been reported that the Government’s proposal to sell the Land Registry to the private sector could result in as many as 1,500 job losses. It is expected that the Land Registry’s 7,700 staff will meet today and be informed of the reasons behind the potential redundancies. It is expected that all roles will ...
  3 weeks ago

• Is sacking educators during a recession a good idea?

  
  The Plashing Vole: parataxis — Authority: 142
  According to my V-C, yes it is. According to others, such as the V-C of University of Central Lancashire, definitely not: "It would be beyond reason for an incoming government to significantly reduce public expenditure on higher education in the middle of a recession. It would be like a general demobilising ...
  3 weeks ago

• Lloyds Banking Group sells Halifax for £1

  
  All Home Loan Info — Authority: 131
  Lloyds Banking Group has sold its Halifax estate agency business for just £1 to LSL Property Services. The group has said 1,050 employees will be transferred to LSL after the sale. However, the move is likely to cause 460 jobs to be lost, 360 of which are said to be full time positions. Lloyds has been in talks ...
  4 weeks ago

• The unbearable lightness of being —

  
  Going against the current — Authority: 124
  A life caught in the security of everyday routine, of repeating pastiches, and of motifs that cycle and do nothing else but to go round and round, until it consumes itself and loses it reason for existence*. Almost all great literature were written in periods where people were subjected to great turmoil, either ...
  4 weeks ago

• Troubled Loch Lomond Golf Course to cut 35% staff

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 443
  At the end of October 2008, Lyle Anderson, owner of the stratospherically upmarket Loch Lomond Golf Course (£75,000 joining fee and £3,250 pa annual subscription), after being unable to renegotiate debts, asked the lender, then HBOS, to take over the running of the club.At the time the club’s debts were thought to ...
  4 weeks ago

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