Results tagged “jobs”
The Olympic Games are still over two years away but planning for what will happen on the Park after 2012 is well underway.
The Olympic Park Legacy Company was set up last year to oversee the long-term development of the area and its chairwoman, Baroness Ford, recently gave evidence to a House of Commons select committee about its plans.
By John Biggs
We are of course all concerned about the economy but different political parties have different solutions for dealing with it.
The next few months will clarify whether the worst is over, and in the next few years we will understand whether we made the right choices.
By Tim Archer
I want to return to the subject of unemployment and how Tower Hamlets is failing our young people. We have the worst unemployment rate in the country, with 11.7 per cent of the population out of work.
As bad as that statistic is, it hides an even bigger issue - the problem of youth unemployment.
My daughter is half way through her A-level exams. If she gets the grades she will be off to university.
And after she's finished she will, in theory, be able to walk into a "graduate" job. Two things strike me about this. First, this is not a good time to be a graduate looking for a job.
Unemployed Newham residents are being given the chance to give their careers a lift-off thanks to a scheme being run by London City Airport.
The Take Off Into Work programme has been launched by the Airport in partnership with Newham Workplace and the East London Business Alliance.
Securing an interview for that ideal job is a huge step, but one that might fall flat if the employer is convinced that they're talking about wages and work duties with Bigfoot.
As part of The Wharf's focus on finding work, it's shearing time for reporter John Hill.
In the second of a two-part series, The Wharf talks to recruitment agency Formula One about successfully returning to the UK workforce after spending time abroad.
For more information about the agency, go to formula-won.co.uk
In the first of a two-part series, The Wharf talks to recruitment agency Formula Won about finding your perfect job abroad - and slotting back into the UK workforce on your return.
Job prospects for graduates were dealt another blow with the results of a new recruitment survey.
According to results from the Robert Half CFO Confidence Index, 91 per cent of chief finance officers (CFOs) of London firms were not looking to recruit graduates this year.
Barclays plan to axe 410 jobs in its IT departments in London, Cheshire and Northampton.
The Churchill Place-based bank has kicked off the consultation process on the cuts, which union officials describe as "a bitter blow" to the workforce.
Bank of America plans to reduce its workforce by more than ten per cent over the next three years.
The corporation - which employs around 1,700 people at its European HQ in Canada Square - cited the merger with Merrill Lynch and "the weak economic environment" as reasons for the move.
Citigroup plans to reduce its workforce by 52,000 as it prepares to weather choppy financial waters.
The New York City bank told investors on Monday that it aims to trim its worldwide headcount to 300,000 in the near future. Citigroup has already cut 23,000 jobs since the start of the year.
Morgan Stanley looks set to be the next Wharf bank to make major job cuts as the economic gloom sinks lower over London.
Up to 1,100 jobs are expected to be culled at the American bank's Canary Wharf headquarters, despite recent moves taken to avoid meltdown along the lines of Lehman Brothers. A decision is expected to be made in the next few days.
WATERSTONE'S opened its doors in Canary Wharf this morning.
The former Books, etc stores in Jubilee Place mall and Cabot Place were back in business again after a two week refit and a Waterstone's rebranding.
And any Wharfers in need of a temporary job after the recent spate of redundancies could swap book-keeping for book-selling at the Jubilee Place mall branch.
LEHMAN Brothers staff are “upbeat� after a deal which could save up to 2,000 jobs in Canary Wharf.
Japanese investment bank Nomura snapped up the company’s investment banking and equities divisions on Tuesday for a nominal fee believed to be $2.
AROUND 700 jobs at the European branch of Lehman Brothers last night as banks tabled their final offers for the firm's assets.
INTERNATIONAL news agency Thomson Reuters is set to shave 1,500 staff from its worldwide workforce.
The newly-merged financial data and news provider will reportedly cut around three per cent of its 50,000 employees in the next year, including 650 content and technology jobs and 140 of the company’s 2,600 journalists.
Union members are considering strike action after news broke of the move this week.
CITIGROUP may be about to axe up to 2,000 jobs in Canary Wharf as it tries to off-set its credit crunch losses.
The banking giant has announced worldwide cuts of 9,000 jobs after revealing a first quarter loss of £2.7billion ($5.11bn) last week. Commentators predict a number will come from the bank’s UK headquarters in Canada Square.
Citigroup is the biggest bank in the US, but only Swiss firm UBS has been forced to announce more write-downs and credit losses since America’s sub-prime mortgage market collapsed last year. Worldwide job losses of 4,200 were scheduled by the bank in mid-January after it was forced to write off £11.3billion in sub-prime investments and losses in the fourth quarter last year.
GORDON Brown had reassuring words for Canary Wharf workers when he arrived at the financial centre.
The Prime Minister was at the East Wintergarden to promote Ken Livingstone’s mayoral election campaign.
His visit coincided with jobs uncertainty at Bear Stearns and the ongoing threat of global recession. But the Prime Minister told The Wharf that maintaining high employment in the area is at the top of his agenda.
