Nineteen Peacocks stores in Northern Ireland are to close with the loss of more than 250 jobs.

A government proposal to hand over youth employment services to private providers is being described as a dangerous ideological experiment.

Fashion retailer Peacocks is sold out of administration to Edinburgh Woollen Mill, saving 6,000 jobs, but 3,100 staff will be made redundant.

The Green Party has called on the Government to abandon plans to privatise the Ministry of Social Development's youth employment services, following the release of a Cabinet paper which reveals Treasury has significant concerns about the plan.

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA-- - The Mining Suppliers Association of British Columbia supports the Government of BC's efforts to accelerate the BC Jobs Plan and maintain fiscal discipline in Budget 2012. "With this budget, the Government is staying on track to meet the BC Jobs Plan target of eight ...

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA-- - The British Columbia technology sector has weathered the global downturn and will create thousands of new jobs in the coming year, according to the latest survey of B.C. ...

Companies Turn to Human Resource Outsourcing to Ease Growing PainsTORONTO, Feb. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - While opening an office in Canada is an exciting way to expand into new markets, companies unfamiliar ...

Produced by Apple employees in 1985, tribute was first widely circulated after Jobs died.

EVANSTON, Ill., Feb. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Industrial employment in Rhode Island was little changed over the past year according to the 2012 Rhode Island Manufacturers Register, an industrial directory ...

Because 'golf happens here' Kathy Wilkes, director of employment services for The PGA of America in Palm Beach Gardens, is an accidental golfer. But she turned it into a career.

American Airlines workers in Tulsa said they are stepping up a public campaign to draw attention to the 2,100 employees whose jobs are on the struggling air carrier's chopping block as the company goes through bankruptcy, the local Transport Workers Union said Tuesday.

Youth employment will be the main focus for a planned Marlborough economic development summit, Kaikoura MP Colin King said yesterday.

U.S. construction employment is stuck at well below pre-recession levels in all but eight of 337 metropolitan areas, according to the Association of General Contractors of America.

Hillary Clinton promised Tuesday to put the force of her State Department behind US businesses, calling for "jobs diplomacy" to help boost exports and jumpstart a still wobbly economy.

Brace yourself, we are about to enter a new era of Apple.

SAN ANTONIO, Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- As the economy recovers and America adapts to a changing workforce, Express Employment Professionals, one of the nation's largest privately-held staffing companies, ...

Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana and Iowa: Those are the five states with the largest proportion of workers in manufacturing, according to U.S. Census figures. They all voted for Obama in 2008. And four of those five--with the exception of Indiana, which is leaning Republican--are considered toss-ups in this year's presidential election.

State and local government employment in Iowa is declining, part of a widespread downturn in public sector employment nationally, according to a new report by New York-based Nelson Rockefeller Institute of Government.

Youth Employment Minister Angela Constance tells MSPs that she plans to allocate £6m to support a continuation of Community Jobs Scotland in 2012/13.

The employment arrangements of embattled Canberra Liberals' staffer Tio Faulkner are unacceptable, according to Chief Minister Katy Gallagher.