The news that Nissan in Sunderland is to build a new hatchback, creating a little over 1,000 jobs in the plant and the supply chain by 2014, is a further indication of the confidence in continued productivity in an excellent manufacturing facility in the region.Read
THE National Apprenticeship Service, with partners (including The Journal), last week launched another 100 days of campaigning to encourage more employers to take on an apprentice.Read
THE Chancellor will be thoroughly disappointed that headlines in the days following the political theatre of last week’s Budget were dominated by the ‘granny tax’ rather than the major cuts in corporation tax and the lifting of the untaxed personal allowance for the lowest paid workers.Read
IT was hardly a revelation last week when the Office for National Statistics confirmed that the number of people employed in the public sector in the region had fallen by more than 5% in the last year.Read
THE predictable outcry from some of the dimmer lights in the world of business against those expressing concern about excessive bonus payments are nothing more than a wafer-thin defence of the corporate greed that has been growing for 30 years or more.Read
THE start of Apprenticeship Week is – and ought always to be – the opportunity to celebrate good-quality opportunities for young people in the region.Read
IN its single-minded focus on reducing the public spending deficit quickly and, it would seem, at all costs, the coalition Government is making many clumsy mistakes – deepening its unpopularity as a direct result of the harm it is doing to the most vulnerable people in society.Read
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