CARPETRIGHT will this morning file a notice to appoint administrators, putting nearly 2,000 jobs in jeopardy. Sources told The Sun that advisers at PwC realised there was no way of achieving a solvent sale of the retailer which has suffered slowing sales. One insider called the business “a real mess”. 1 Accounting firm PwC has...
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Report: Digital Job Growth in UK Hits Lowest Level in Decade
Great Britain’s digital sector is reportedly seeing its slowest job growth in a decade. As Bloomberg News reported Thursday (July 11), this has led the incoming Labour government to promise to revitalize the industry as it seeks to fuel growth. The number of digital jobs climbed by just 0.3% last year — the lowest figure since a...
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What the remaking of Labour reveals about Sir Keir Starmer
TO THOSE WHO question his readiness to be prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer has a message: look at how he has run the opposition. “I have changed this Labour Party, dragged it back to service, and I will do exactly the same for Westminster,” he told a rally early on in the general-election campaign. It...
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London calling? Incomes, living costs vs NZ – and job that’s ‘paradise’ in UK
The couple decided to move after the Covid pandemic dried up Lee’s music work and New Zealand’s small size left them few options, Danielle said. “With my job, there was no potential for growth … no promotion opportunities,” she said of New Zealand’s limited number of libraries. Having now hot-footed it out of the country,...
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Maui’s Andrew and Jay Molina spreading aloha in Europe
By JON WOODHOUSE For The Maui News The father and son duo of Jay and Andrew Molina will soon fly from Maui to Europe, where they will first perform at the three-day Ukulele Festival of Great Britain. From there they head over to Ireland and then back to England to tour...
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Millions of people not working is ‘unacceptable’ says Labour
Rising levels of worklessness are “unacceptable” and require “immediate action”, the new Labour government’s jobs minister has said. Liz Kendall is proposing several measures including a new national jobs and careers service to tackle record youth unemployment and rising numbers of those out of work due to long-term sickness. On her first ministerial tour as...
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Miliband vs Mandelson: The battle for the best job in British diplomacy
“David and Peter both have huge strengths,” Knight says. “You could make an argument that Peter’s someone you want close to home. My sense is he has been advising the leader’s office in the run-up to the election. And that went well. If David’s ready to move on from IRC he would be a brilliant...
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Axed Dyson workers reveal they found out they were losing their jobs on the news and claim bosses execute the ruthless cuts quickly ‘to protect trade secrets’ after firm announced it was slashing 1,000 British roles
Former Dyson workers have revealed how they found out about the manufacturer’s plan to cut 1,000 of its British employees’ jobs. Cuts at the vacuum and air appliances manufacturer, founded by Norfolk-born inventor Sir James Dyson, equate to almost a third of its 3,500-strong UK workforce. As employees entered Dyson’s One Cathedral Square in Bristol...
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Dyson: Wiltshire Council frustration over no warning for job cuts
2 hours ago By Karen Gardner, BBC Radio Wiltshire • Sarah Turnnidge, BBC News, West of England Dyson Up to a third of Dyson’s UK workforce will be cut A council leader is “extremely frustrated” over a lack of notice surrounding huge job cuts at engineering giant Dyson. The British-founded company announced on Tuesday it planned to cut up to...
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1,000 jobs to be cut across Dyson’s offices in Britain
Dyson, the British appliance-manufacturing firm is trimming its workforce in the UK by about 1,000. That means, a quarter of its 3,500-strong team across offices in London, Bristol and Wiltshire will be let go. The company, which has been manufacturing vacuum cleaners, air purifiers, hair dryers and other appliances since 1991, has a global workforce...
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How Dyson has ‘abandoned’ UK as it grapples with ‘huge competition’ from lookalike rivals: Experts say tech firm’s ‘devastating’ decision to slash 1,000 jobs was ‘not a surprise’ after new products struggled to take off amid relocation to Singapore
Brexit billionaire Sir James Dyson sparked a major backlash when he decided to relocate his firm’s global headquarters to Singapore just three years after the referendum. He defended the move and has always maintained Dyson is a ‘British company’. But it appears Dyson has turned its back on Britain again by cutting a third of...
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Keir Starmer gives government jobs to brand new MPs
Sir Keir Starmer has given junior ministerial roles to five MPs who were only elected for the first time last week. It is highly unusual for MPs with no previous experience in Parliament to immediately be given government jobs. Georgia Gould, the leader of Sir Keir’s local Camden council and daughter of Blair-era strategist Lord...