All job losses articles
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NewsBardsley went bust owing £45m
Manchester-based contractor was working on 11 jobs went it collapsed
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NewsRivals gather to pick over Clugston contracts
Quintet of firms doing due diligence on projects being worked on by collapsed contractor
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NewsAdministrator says 150 jobs have gone at collapsed Clugston
KPMG makes one third of staff redundant
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NewsGalliford Try set to get back less than half its claim over Aberdeen road job
Advisers warn contractor it will claw back only £100m
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NewsClose to 350 Carillion apprentices given their marching orders in past week
Biggest number of staff axed at bust firm in seven day period since early February
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NewsAlmost 3,000 Carillion workers remain in limbo close to five months after collapse
Around 100 staff had their jobs saved in the past week
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NewsCarillion job losses pass 1,500
But more than 8,500 jobs have been saved, says official receiver
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NewsMore Carillion employees axed, as job losses mount
Around 45% of the pre-liquidation workforce have secured ongoing employment
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CommentWhy job shedding in the UK construction industry may be about to accelerate
It is possible that we have not yet seen in the figures an employment response to the drop in output
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We're back to double-digit growth in house prices, oh dear
House prices are booming again, crack open the champagne!Well maybe not.If I was a house builder reading the latest survey from the Nationwide building society showing a double-digit rise in prices over the past year (see graph) I would be worried.Looking at my short-term prospects, naturally I would be chirpy ...
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Good news in the employment figures, but the future for construction jobs remains uncertain
The latest employment data will provide economists, politicians and strategists with plenty to chew on.The headline figure for unemployment jumped by 43,000 to top 2.5 million for the first time since 1996, the number of people in employment fell by 89,000 and the number wanting a job rose again.But there ...
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Joy deferred as CIPS shows construction activity grows for first time in two years
So the construction activity indicator produced by the buyers’ body CIPS finally points to growth after two years of measuring falling workloads. But this seemingly uplifting moment appears to have brought little joy.The March figure popped its head above the 50 no-change mark on the back of rising activity in ...
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Fewer redundancy in construction, but the future remains bleak on jobs
For the optimists in the construction industry there is much hope to be gleaned from the latest employment figures.Equally for the pessimists there is plenty within the numbers to fret about.So what should we make of the latest batch of labour market numbers that, among other things, show that 163,000 ...
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We’ll be getting off relatively lightly if the construction workforce drops by 400,000
The latest forecast from the Construction Skills Network (CSN) suggests that the current recession in construction will have led to a drop of about 400,000 in the number employed by the industry once job shedding ends in early 2011.This would mean a drop of about 15% in the workforce. That ...
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111,000 jobs lost to construction... and that is just the start
The latest employment figures make grim reading for the construction industry with the number of workforce jobs plunging by 61,000 in the second quarter of this year.This means that 111,000 jobs have been lost to the industry since they peaked in the autumn last year.In fairness the drop in workforce ...
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Redundancies in construction jump to 170,000 over 12 months
The latest employment figures show a continued shocking rate of redundacies in construction with another 42,000 jobs shed from the industry in the second quarter of this year.That makes a total of 170,000 recorded job losses over the past 12 months.The number of redundancies was slightly down on the previous ...