Around half of the mid-sized businesses in the North-East area plan to actually create more jobs over the next 12 months, a news report reveals.
The results are presented in the Barclays Job Creation Survey 2013, and point out that, while the numbers are still high, there are fewer companies actually planning to hire additional staff this year.
40 businesses in the North East region have already signed up for the ’Construction4Growth’ campaign, launched in partnership with CITB-ConstructionSkills, in an attempt to convince the Government to increase investment in the sector.
Bus transport across the North East of England is likely to be severely disrupted next week, given the fact that bus company Go North East now faces three days of industrial action on 15, 18 and 23 March after staff rejected a new pay deal.
A new Marks & Spencer food store set to be opened in Gosforth will not only benefit the local community in terms of additional shopping options, but will also bring about 60 new jobs.
Yorkshire Ambulance Service workers are deciding upon whether to take industrial action over plans to take on emergency care assistants to work with paramedics.
Since the state of the economy is not exactly fantastic, any new opportunity for employment is something to be seriously taken into consideration, especially when talking about local jobs.
In excess of 200 jobs are to go at City of York Council due to cost-cutting. The Labour-run authority’s budget was passed this week and has been slashed by £20 million over the next two years.
Union officials have threatened to take legal action over mandatory CCTV cameras in Sheffield taxis.
Workers on the Tyne and Wear Metro took strike action for the twelfth time – and they are threatening to do it again soon.