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Workers taking packed lunches to beat crunch
7:00am Saturday 3rd January 2009
EMPLOYEES are increasingly likely to tuck into packed lunches at work as the credit crunch continues to bite, a new survey reveals.
Comments (0)When dole queue became reality for thousands
7:00am Saturday 3rd January 2009
THE credit crunch became a grim reality for millions of people in 2008 as the UK slid into recession and tens of thousands joined the dole queue.
Benefits families on more than average take-home pay
7:00am Saturday 3rd January 2009
SOME 140,000 families are raking in more in benefits than the average take-home salary, it has been revealed.
Tackling unemployment is Brown’s priority for 09
11:14am Wednesday 24th December 2008
Government spending programmes brought forward in a bid to beat the recession will provide employment for at least 100,000 people in the current difficult economic times, Gordon Brown says.
Beat the CV rush
11:10am Wednesday 24th December 2008
WITH experts predicting that two million people could be jobless by Christmas, now could be the time to send out your CV.
Questioning the benefits
7:00am Saturday 20th December 2008
AS the recession takes hold and jobs are scarce, the Government is working on new plans to get people off benefits and into work.
More jobs at risk next year
7:00am Saturday 13th December 2008
JUST when you thought it couldn’t get worse, several studies reveal bleak times ahead for the service, retail, distribution and construction industries.
Manufacturing jobs hard hit
7:00am Saturday 6th December 2008
MANUFACTURING is heading for a recession as serious as the one which decimated the industry a decade ago after new research revealed that the outlook had taken a “significant” turn for the worse, a gloomy new report warns.
Getting your short-term fix
7:00am Saturday 29th November 2008
IT could be the chance of a lifetime or your worst nightmare – but the credit crunch means that companies will be much more likely to offer employees short-term contracts rather than permanent jobs, new research has found.
Four out of five fear for jobs
7:00am Saturday 29th November 2008
FOUR out of five workers fear they will lose their jobs as recession looms, while most struggle on their current salary, according to new research.
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