Jobs threat as Threshers hits trouble
Berrows Journal
OFF-LICENCE staff are at threat of redundancy after the collapse of the company paying their wages. First Quench Retailing runs eight stores in south …

Part-time RIR soldiers win case
BBC News
More than 1000 part-time soldiers who took a case against the Ministry of Defence over pension and redundancy rights have won £6.7m in compensation. …

Redundancy insurance terms ‘unfair’
Financial Times
But claims on the redundancy element of the cover are being turned down by insurers because of a controversial exclusion relating to a policyholder becoming …

Ninety jobs are to go at dockyard
BBC News
The firm says the cuts are being made to help make the site more efficient and it hopes to make the reductions through voluntary redundancy. …

Turning Redundancy into Business Success
The Franchise Magazine
But he turned the situation round to his advantage by using his redundancy payment to invest in his own business. Mark invested in a franchise with Chemex …

Action threat over redundancy row
Stoke & Staffordshire – Stoke-on-Trent,England,UK
by Kathie McInnes LECTURERS are to take industrial action at Stoke-on-Trent College in an escalating row over staff redundancies. …

Anger over college staff job cuts
BBC News – UK
Staff are also angered that they will be offered the minimum statutory redundancy package, regardless of their length of service. A spokesperson for trade …

More jobs cut at telecoms giant
BBC News – UK
She added the former workers had informed the EU’s Employment Commission over the lack of pay and a statutory redundancy consultation period. …

Unions hit out at Birmingham care home redundancies
Birmingham Post – Birmingham,West Midlands,UK
Union leaders are stepping up their campaign against compulsory redundancies at Birmingham City Council, accusing the Conservative-led authority of …

Redundancy payouts to get boost in Budget
Mirror.co.uk – London,UK
Chancellor Alistair Darling is expected to announce an increase in statutory redundancy payouts, from £350 to £380 a week. The rise will delight unions and …

Lord Mandelson is “naïve and ignorant”
Real Business – London,England,UK
He also hits out at Mandelson’s suggestion that people should use their redundancy payments to start a small business: “This intimation was made two weeks …

Alistair Darling must spend, not save, in Wednesday’s Budget
Mirror.co.uk – London,UK
Helping hundreds of thousands heading for the dole is a good starting point by raising redundancy payments and the pitiful £64.30 per week Jobseeker’s …

Turning redundancy into an opportunity
Aberdeen Press and Journal – Aberdeen,Scotland,UK
REDUNDANCY is an experience which has hit many people across the UK as we feel the brunt of the recession. But, while some have joined the dole queue or …

Survey shows Welsh workers willing to help safeguard colleagues’ jobs
WalesOnline – United Kingdom
And 3% would go slow at work, 4% would walk off the job or seek redundancy, and a further 3% would consider strike action. Also, in a separate poll on the …

BT set to axe another 10000 jobs
The Press Association
Telecoms group BT is poised to axe another 10000 jobs as part of a redundancy programme due to be announced next month. The efficiency drive – in addition …

Post Office ‘cheating’ on redundancy cover
This is Money – UK
The Post Office is accused of cheating customers over controversial payment protection insurance (PPI) redundancy cover by hiking prices and slashing …

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.

Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater
Times Online – UK
Simon Champion, founder of Redundancy Help, an advice centre, said: “In the last downturn a lot of big companies got rid of their skilled workers, …

Business Doctor: Tax relief on redundancy payments
Times Online – UK
I agreed to pay three of them the statutory redundancy package, while the fourth will receive more than statutory redundancy. …

Rangers offer redundancy packages
BBC News – UK
Rangers are offering their staff the option of voluntary redundancy in response to the economic downturn. A club spokeswoman told BBC Scotland that the …

Survey Results: The Economic Recession Gets Personal – Traffic to health questions site increases 300%

eHealth Forum highlights detrimental effects of downturn on individual health and holds out a supportive hand: Economic recession help forum

Earlier this week eHealth Forum, one of the world’s largest health sites, releases unsettling data regarding the direct effects the recession is having on respondents to its latest online survey. Over 3,000 people from US, UK and Canada answered questions relating to impact of the world’s economic downturn on their personal lives. In response to the concerning results, eHealth Forum has also created a special forum to help people cope with the fall out of the recession.

eHealth Forum is a global health site dedicated to the people that use it. Members ask medical questions, join in discussions, simply listen, or offer and exchange helpful words and ideas. The site currently has over 2.5 million users a month and is available for free 24/7.

Health and the economic recession survey results:
Almost 60 percent (55.58% or 1,669 respondents) said that their sleep was affected with financial worries. Nearly 46 percent (45.82 % or 1,376 respondents) admitted that the were trying to hide their worries from their families. Over a quarter were concerned about losing their jobs (26.47% 795 respondents) and half were more irritable than usual, probably due to lack of sleep and anxiety (48.5% or 1,443 respondents) with a further 50 percent (50.65% and 1,521 respondents) noticing more tension in the head, neck and shoulders than usual.

The most crushing statistic of this recent poll, is that more than one third of participants (1,082 respondents) had recently gone without something in order to provide for their families… Pushing financial concerns to the back of one’s mind actually make the problem worse. Escalating anxiety and festering issues can do yet more damage in the long run.

eHealth Forum community director, Lee Weber, said: “People are already showing very obvious signs of getting depressed and anxious about the current economic situation; we’ve seen a 300 percent increase in traffic to our depression forum, and 400 percent increase in our anxiety and stress forums.  By encouraging people, and those around them, to offload their worries on the new Recession Forum at ehealthforum.com, we hope to share the load for those struggling with the emotional and physical effects of the global economic meltdown.”

Rise in number seeking redundancy help
Norfolk Eastern Daily Press – Norwich,England,UK
A shock rise in the number of white collar professionals seeking redundancy advice emerged last night exposing the true impact the recession is having on …

The human cost of redundancy
Norfolk Eastern Daily Press – Norwich,England,UK
Jean Mononen, careers adviser at the Advice Shop, said those she saw tended to look at their redundancy as an opportunity to find something that would …

Recession-hit firms ‘use dodges to shed staff without redundancy pay’
guardian.co.uk – UK
Struggling companies seeking to cut staff are avoiding the cost of redundancy payments by sacking workers for spurious reasons or falsely claiming they face …

Crunch time: Could your relationship survive redundancy?
Daily Mail – UK
By Diana Appleyard As unemployment heads towards the two million mark and further redundancies are announced every day, more and more families across the …

Private schools start to feel the financial pinch
Scotsman – United Kingdom
Keith Robson, the national official for the ATL teaching union in Scotland, said he was in redundancy talks with two big independent schools and expected …