Other media on redundancy 5th April 2009
April 5, 2009 by Peekay
Filed under Other Media
70 at risk of compulsory redundancy after town hall merger
Journal Live – Newcastle upon Tyne,UK
But yesterday bosses at the new council revealed that 70 workers who want to keep their jobs remain at risk of compulsory redundancy in the drive to make …
Efforts to save SR Technics jobs continue
Belfast Telegraph – United Kingdom
600 redundancies came into effect at the plant at Dublin Airport yesterday. But SIPTU is calling on Tanaiste Mary Coughlan to intervene to ensure these …
Workers occupy car parts factories in England and Northern Ireland
World Socialist Web Site – Oak Park,MI,USA
One hundred workers occupied the plant on Tuesday night, demanding either that the plants are kept operational or the redundancy and pension pay-outs are …
Threat of redundancy ‘hangs over 13m’
Institute of Leadership & Management – London,UK
This means that more than 13 million are threatened by the prospect of redundancy, it warned. It found that those in the public sector have the safest jobs, …
HBOS chief gives up £1m payoff for basic redundancy of £2970
guardian.co.uk – UK
Instead Hornby was granted £2970 in basic statutory redundancy pay. He did, however, pick up £251000 as a result of the company’s takeover by Lloyds on top …
How to survive redundancy and recession
What PC? – UK
Archana Venkatraman asks why, and what info pros can do to beat redundancy What a difference a winter makes. In December 2008, the Special Libraries …
British Airways cuts send week’s job losses above 4000
guardian.co.uk – UK
BA said today that the “tough economic climate” had forced it to cut 300 jobs as part of a targeted voluntary redundancy scheme.
Anyone else see the papers about a week ago reporting that 100 jobs were to be cut at one of the contracted helicopter firms servicing the North Sea oil rigs?
While not striking any direct correlation with last week’s tragic accident – one cannot help but wonder: At what price human life and health and safety?