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Just before Christmas 2012, 6,661 Comet staff were sacked when the administrator Deloitte announced the closure of the company, including all 195 stores, offices and distribution centres. Shopworkers union Usdaw took out a case at the Leeds Employment Tribunal on ...

The elected Mayor of Tower Hamlets, Lutfur Rahman, joined with construction workers and trade unionists to take part in International Workers Memorial Day on Monday, 28th April. The Mayor laid a wreath at the Building Worker statue in Tower Hill ...

Next month, the council will call on new traders and budding entrepreneurs to try out a market stall for just £10 per day as part of the Love Your Local Market fortnight, which runs from 14-28th May. Led by the ...

John Gorle, Usdaw’s National Officer with responsibility for the Co-op, has explained Usdaw’s position on the unfolding events at the Co-op. Here is his statement. “The problems at the Co-operative Bank have been a real concern for some time and ...

There’s just a couple of weeks left to enter BT Sport’s competition to rustle up some new, youthful TV presenting talent. And the competition has a unique prize: the lucky winner will be part of the team presenting BT Sport’s ...

Samantha Mimms didn’t get any qualifications at school. After she left education, she spent 20 years bringing up her children. But on 20th May Samantha got her first permanent job – and a plaque from Esther Vey, Minister for Disabled ...

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has warned the public that services are under great strain because cuts in Government funding have led to 10,000 staff being made redundant over the last three years. The figures for redundancies were released ...

Fish4jobs has been busy surveying young jobseekers to find out what their biggest problems in finding work are. Of those 16-24 years olds surveyed, two in every five (42%) responded that they thought they lacked interview skills.  One in four ...

Mayor Lutfur Rahman has welcomed to the Council ten of the Borough’s disabled residents who will be taking up work placements at Tower Hamlets.

The unemployment rate for those from London stands at 9.7 per cent as nationally one in five young people are still unemployed. The Office for National Statistics has released its latest batch of unemployment figures which show unemployment in the ...