Expansion
- Aldi: peruses expansion, each week, head office
- Amazon: second HQ, new Bristol site
- Argos: New store in Crawley
- Barclays: 2,500 new jobs in Glasgow hub
- B&M: Expansion
- Co-op: [UPDATED] Co-op, 100 new store plans
- Greggs: 130 new bakery shops
- Hilton: Plans for 34 more hotels in the UK
- Ikea: India’s first Ikea
- Lidl: 12 new store in Scotland
- Nestlé: 70+ jobs to be created
- Premier Inn: 1,000 new jobs for military
- Screwfix: Lincolnshire, Redcar
- Superdrug: Expansion
- Sussex News: apprentice scheme
- Tesco: 750 new stores in Thailand
- Travelodge: North East, rail plans, seaside hotels and in general
Job Openings
- Aldi: 4,000 new jobs in the UK
- Amazon: 400 jobs at new depot, 1,000 UK apprenticeships, 2,000 British jobs
- BT: 1,600 apprentices
- Deliveroo: 250 extra jobs
- Jet2.com: 1,700 new staff
- Lloyds: 700 new jobs
- McDonald’s: 43,000 apprenticeships
- NHS: 500 Radiologists
- Royal Mail: 20,000 new recruits
- Subway: to create 5,000 new jobs
- Travelodge: 1,000 new jobs, 3,000 new positions for parents
Companies in administration
Store Closures
- Boots: to close 200 stores
- BT: 270 offices
- Debenhams: 20 possible closures by 2020, 50 stores
- Coca-Cola: Closing plants
- Evans Cycles: 31 stores to shut down
- Ford: ‘to shut engine plant’
- Foxtons: 6 branches to close
- Homebase: more stores to close, slashes stores
- Honda: Plant closure via DVD
- Jones Bootmaker, Camberley: closure
- Laura Ashley: 40 more stores
- Kerry Foods: Burton-on-Trent plant
- Majestic Wine: All stores
- Marks & Spencer: Hardwick Distribution Centre, More stores boss admits, revamp, to shut 110 stores,
- N Brown: 20 stores to close
- Prezzo: Axing 100 outlets
- Restaurant Group: 42 outlets to close
- Shop Direct: about 2,000
- Sports Direct: warehouse closes
- Tesco: Tesco Direct to close
- Thomas Cook: 21 stores
- Toys ‘R’ US: 26 UK stores, 200 USA stores
- Waitrose: 5 store closures, 7 store closures, more closures
Job Losses (incl. ‘at risk’)
- AA: cuts planned (re-post)
- Asda: 100’s of jobs lost at offices (re-post)
- BAE: ‘to cut 1,000 jobs’ (re-post)
- Bathstore: Jobs at risk (re-post)
- Carillion: 101 redundancies (re-post), 1,500 redundancies (re-post)
- Carpetright: Store closures
- Centrica: 700 jobs (re-post)
- ConocoPhillips: to axe 450 jobs (re-post)
- Cooper Tire & Rubber: to cut 300 jobs in UK (re-post)
- Debenhams: to close up to 50 stores, 4,000 jobs at risk (re-post), 320 management roles to be axed (re-post)
- Deutche Bank: to cut 18,000 jobs (re-post)
- E.ON: 500 jobs to be cut (re-post)
- Ford: 400 cut, 7,000 jobs (500 in UK) (re-post)
- Fox’s Biscuits: 350 at risk (re-post)
- Gaucho: 1,500 jobs at risk (re-post)
- Hirst: Redundancies (re-post)
- Interseve: Further job cuts planned (re-post)
- John Lewis: 1,800 redundant in the last year (re-post)
- Kimberly-Clark: 1,600 UK jobs at risk (re-post)
- LK Bennett: 500 at risk (re-post)
- Maplin: Further 66 to go (re-post)
- Marks and Spencer: 1,000 jobs at risk (re-post)
- Monarch: 450 axed (re-post)
- Morrisons: 1500 store managers slashed (re-post)
- New Look: 980 staff to be axed (re-post)
- NHS: vacancies hit record high
- Nissan: To cut 10,000 jobs (re-post), Wields axe (re-post)
- Npower: 900 axed (re-post)
- Oddbins: 550 at risk (re-post)
- Office Outlet: Enters administration (re-post)
- Ryanair: to slash jobs (re-post)
- Sainsbury’s: More than 1,000 jobs to go at HQ (re-post), Senior job cuts (re-post)
- Select: 2,000 jobs at risk (re-post)
- SSE: 444 jobs to be cut (re-post)
- Superdry: 200 at H.O. at risk (re-post)
- Ted Baker: 160 jobs at risk
- Tesco: 1,800 bakery jobs at risk
- Tesla: 3,000 planned job cuts (re-post)
- Wickes: Head Office (re-post)
- Wilko: in Beverley (re-post), in general (re-post)
- William Hill: 4,500 jobs at risk (re-post)
- Wyvale: 20 support centre job cuts (re-post)
Company Comeback
Bullying & Discrimination
- Age discrimination: Older Workers (Re-post), over 60 old shoulder (Re-post), employers aim for older
- Disability: Unemployment (Re-post)
- Harassment: McDonald’s
- Homophobic: An article from The Independent, Everett (Re-post)
- Sexism: CEO gets talked down to (Re-post), Fired for ‘Man Bun’ (Re-post), Gender pay gap, Hits new high, Washing pots is for women (Re-post), Women’s jobs
Technology
Unemployment, Benefits & Job Seeking
- 10-year boom in employment
- Careers: Young ‘let down’ by careers advice
- Drug Tests: Planned
- Interview Question: Job candidates will be asked: ‘Are you working class?’
- Job Rejections: 400 for Hopes
- Pay: Half ‘struggle’
- Retail: Retail bears the brunt of 50,000 job losses, 18,000 retail jobs lost
- Travel Expenses: Jobseekers’ job interviews
- Unemployment: Set for a new low, record high, claimants ‘don’t have enough to live’
- Vacancies: two-year high, Nursing vacancies hit record high across NHS
- Work Experience: Brady’s warning
Work Issues
- Insecure jobs: 3.8m workers in insecure jobs
- Physical contact: Ban kissing and hugging in the office, say workers
- Stress: Stress at work, Workload adding stress
- Strikes: BA, Cash transporters over pay, Gatwick Security over pay, Mitie, Science Museum
- Work Pressure: Work Pressure
- Misc: Office “grumbles”
Misc (by company)
- Argos: click and collect, Spell checkout
- Bennetts: saved from collapse
- Carillion: ‘fled for the hills’
- Co-op-Costcutter tie-up
- Domino’s: chocolate pizza
- French Baker: Fined
- Homebase: Could close more stores, buys Bathstore
- House of Fraser “Greedy landlords”, nears collapse
- HMV: Ashley in talks
- Job Centre Plus: Strike at Sheffield for a week, open late
- JPMorgan: 4,000 staff to Europe
- Links of London: Brink of collapse
- Lush: Social Media
- Patisserie Valerie: Deal secures 2,000 jobs
- Ryanair: Punishment
- Safeway: [UPDATED] McColl’s-Morrisons tie-up
- Select: Seeks rent cuts
- Toys R Us: We R Broke
- Wilko: New Rota
Misc (other)
- 125 retailers went vust in the last year
- Brexit: Car jobs at risk, negative effect on jobs
- Cash: Could make workers move
- Cinemas: Staff strike for better pay
- Communication: 18-24 year olds dodge checkout staff
- Crawshaw: 240 saved
- Driving: Ban young driving at night ‘would affect jobs’
- High Streets: 2,400+ stores vanish, 175k jobs at risk
- Jamie Oliver: Blame Brexit, Gatwick sites, Comments
- Job creation: ‘Impressive job creation lauded’
- Job losses: 19,000 jobs lost or ‘at risk’, 20,000 jobs lost or ‘at risk’
- Kebabs: Goner Kebab
- Online Shopping: created jobs
- Relocation: Cash could make workers move
- Rent cuts: Chain seeks rent cuts
- Store Closures: More store closures expected
- Universities: Student suing uni
- Young People: ‘don’t feel ready for work’
- Zero-hour contracts: numbers dropped, zero attraction
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