Redundancy
- BusinessAOL
Will biggest jobs cull in the world hit in a few days?
A report is claiming that a huge multinational firm is planning to sack an incredible 110,000 people around the world - including 5,000 in the UK. This accounts for a quarter of the workforce, and would make it the largest ever round of job
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3,950 redundant NHS staff re-hired
Almost 4,000 NHS staff who have been made redundant in the last four years have since been re-employed by the health service. Labour accused the Government of "handing out cheques like confetti" after ministers admitted that, between
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Barclays to axe hundreds of jobs
Hundreds of jobs are being lost at Barclays under changes in its corporate banking division, it has been announced. Around 400 posts will go, and the Unite union said a further 120 were being placed at risk this
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Redundancy looming? How to get the best package you can
Redundancy is commonly regarded as one of life's most stressful events, right up there with bereavement, serious illness and divorce. All too often, people facing the axe feel such an emotional knockback that they fail to take in the details
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Pensioner must pay £3.5k compensation after wife dies
George Lomas, a 77-year-old from Scholar Green in Cheshire, has been forced to pay a carer £3,500 after her hours were reduced when his wife died. His wife Rose has suffered from Parkinson's disease, and the council had paid carer Jayne
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Sacked by British Gas while in a hospital bed
Nigel Winkley, a gas inspector for British Gas, was told he had been made redundant by two Powerpoint-toting British Gas bosses - while he lay in a hospital bed. What's worse, he was recovering from major heart surgery - after suffering a
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Workers made redundant - then left stranded in Hampshire
Salespeople for Thomson Local telephone directories received an email late on Tuesday, calling them to an emergency meeting at the company's headquarters in Farnborough in Hampshire the following day. Many drove across the country from as