JGP Engineering, the Barnsley-based steelwork fabrication company, has gone into administration with all 50 employees facing redundancy if a buyer can’t be found. The company was founded in 1997 and specialises in making staircases, balconies, gates, canopies and other architectural steelwork items. Its fabrication facility is on the Mitchells Industrial Estate in Wombwell, South Yorkshire….
Cambridge University Press (CUP) are proposing to close their warehouse on Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge and move the facility to the DHL Warehouse in Rushden, Northamptonshire. This would leave the depot’s 49 staff facing redundancy. The affected staff have been told that they can have the option of transferring to Rushden or one of DHL’s other…
The ‘Man Who Would Be King’ was a very gritty short story written in 1888 by Rudyard Kipling and was loosely based on the real-life exploits of two explorers. While admittedly it is a typical ‘Boys Own’ rip-roaring type of adventure, it is also a cautionary tale of what happens when natives are allowed to…
Our top blog page has been all about employees who are feeling hard done by because their bosses aren’t paying them to have the day off or they are being expected to work while colleagues sit at home. In some cases it is, admittedly, causing a real hardship as workers get told ‘Turn up or…
The Easter weekend will soon be here. Good Friday is on 22nd April this year and the long weekend of 22nd to 25th will mean a busy time in DIY stores as thousands of men are simultaneously ejected from their couches to go and operate unfamiliar tools. If it is sunny, there will be a…
The confusion caused by the daft decision to put the Royal Wedding on a day of work (for those cursed by such a plebeian task) continues. A recent survey of businesses shows that an average of 60% of companies are to close for the day of April 29th. However that leaves 40% of the working…
Have you ever considered being ‘By Royal Appointment’? Well, in an era when there are few enough job vacancies being advertised, if you have the right skills and fancy something a bit different, then why not give some thought to working at Buckingham Palace or one of the other Royal Residences? There is a link…
If you want to make money out of the Royal Wedding and you aren’t one of the myriad of suppliers of memorabilia tat that always spring up at times like this, you have just a few days left in which to submit your application for either of the two Royal Wedding Job Vacancies being advertised…
The battle concerning the Royal Wedding took one step further down the road to Armageddon today as health workers were advised that they would not be paid for the Bank Holiday. In a stunning piece of buck-passing, the government, who, after all, were at the heart of this administrative and bureaucratic cock-up, have left the…
Clarence House has advised us all that Prince William is marrying Kate Middleton on Friday 29th April 2011 and it has been decreed that this will be a Bank Holiday. Irrespective of your feelings towards The Royals, this will probably mean you get an extra day’s holiday so it can’t be bad, can it? Before…
