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Darlington Council hunting for new top bosses – including £153,000 chief executive
The local authority is undergoing a restructuring after several department chiefs, including the chief executive Ian Williams, announced their retirements. Job adverts for four high-paid roles have been published, with the council hoping to employ new bosses before the end of the year. The new chief executive will be paid around £153,000 a year plus...
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Mental health patients could get job coach visits, says minister
The cost of disability benefits specifically is projected to surge almost a third in the next four to five years, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies. It predicted the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) would spend £63bn by 2028-29, a jump from £48bn for 2023-24. “I want to see those costs coming down,...
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Thomas Tuchel: What we know about England’s new manager
Thomas Tuchel has a signed a deal to become the next manager of the England men’s football team. The German was officially unveiled on Wednesday following Gareth Southgate’s resignation after Euro 2024, with Lee Carsley having taken temporary charge since then. Tuchel is perhaps best known in the UK for being the former Chelsea manager....
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TGI Fridays: 1,000 UK jobs to go despite rescue deal
More than 1,000 TGI Fridays’ UK staff will be made redundant despite a rescue deal from the owners of restaurant group D&D London. They have bought the UK operator of the American-themed chain, after its owner fell into administration last month. The deal will save nearly 2,400 jobs at 51 restaurants, but the administrators, Teneo,...
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How Sue Gray held top job in Tory AND Labour governments – but is now heading to new envoy role after she quits as Keir Starmer’s chief of staff
Arguably the most famous civil servant in Britain, she presided over the ‘Partygate‘ inquiry into the reports of lockdown parties held in 10 Downing Street. But now, Sue Gray has today sensationally quit from her £170,000 a year job as Sir Keir Starmer‘s chief of staff. She has now been shuffled to a new role...
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This week’s jobs numbers are very good news for Harris and Biden
Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email The US economy added 254,000 jobs in September, blowing past expectations after the Federal Reserve’s announcement that it would slash interest rates, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The number...
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Ex-Harrods director won’t take job as Fenwick boss
A long-serving former Harrods executive, has decided not to become the boss of department store Fenwick despite being due to start this month, the BBC has learned. Nigel Blow worked at Harrods for 14 years from 1992 to 2007, a period when the luxury London store was owned by Mohamed Al Fayed. It comes after...
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Cabinet secretary contenders: who could be next top UK civil servant?
Simon Case has resigned as cabinet secretary and is due to leave at the end of the year. His departure kicks off a race to be his successor, with a job advert already circulated to attract a wide pool of applicants. To date the job of cabinet secretary has only ever been held by white...
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The UK’s happiest and unhappiest jobs revealed – see if yours made the list
Definitely a car designer (Picture: Getty Images) If you can’t relate to the ‘Sunday scaries’ crowd, and instead spring out of bed on Monday morning excited to start the working week, you might just be a car designer – which according to new research, is officially the UK’s happiest job. Bubblegum Search analysed over 2,000...
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Reading comes in as top five UK town for people wanting to quit their jobs
That’s according to the resume experts at Resume.io, who sought the most commonly searched terms related to resignation/quitting a job, including ‘Resignation letter template’, ‘Quiet Quitting’ and ‘How to leave my job’. They then used Google AdWords to analyse which UK cities are most researching quitting their jobs. Reading is fifth, with 3.64% of their population of...
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The UK city where most people hate their jobs and are desperate to quit
A survey has revealed the UK city where most people hate their jobs and the place where Brits are most satisfied with their line of work. A recent poll by Travel Counsellors found that 50 percent of Brits surveyed want to quit their jobs. The three main reasons people wanted a change were: better pay...