Employment news

- Philip Clarke, CEO of the UK’s leading retailer Tesco, has informed around 5,000 of the company’s store managers & executives that their annual bonuses will be slashed this year.According to The Daily Mail a letter was sent to the managers explain...

- Long-serving retail boss Lord Harris is to step down from his role as CEO of carpet & flooring specialist Carpetright, it has been announced today.Harris, who founded the business in 1988, will be replaced in the CEO role by former Sainsbury’s dir...

- On 15 April 2009 Robert McCulloch, a British National Party (BNP) member who openly held extreme and racist views about eastern Europeans coming to the UK, fatally stabbed Mr Romasov from Lithuania at their common place of work – a Sainsbury’s bra...

- Catalogue & online retailer Shop Direct Group has announced today that two of its four customer service centres could close as part of a new deal with professional services firm Serco.Serco has been awarded a contract to manage the retailer’s cont...

- The UK’s leading retailer Tesco has confirmed today that its Group Media Director Trevor Datsun has decided to leave the business.Datsun joined the company in May 2010 from consumer goods firm Cadbury, initially as Media Director before taking cha...

- Julia Reynolds, the CEO of outdoor equipment & clothing retailer Blacks Leisure, is to leave her position in the coming months, reports today suggest.According to The Independent, Reynolds is to step down from the role she only assumed in August b...

- Shop Direct Group, owner of retail brands Littlewoods, Very & Isme, has opened redundancy talks with almost 50 of its head office staff members, according to reports.Thisismoney.co.uk claims that the job cuts effect the buying and merchandising di...

- We might like to think that two people doing the same job will produce similar levels of output, but in practice there can be significant differences. Certain people are twice as productive, sometimes even five times as productive, as others. In t...

- While wider unemployment in the UK continues to stay worryingly high, the retail sector has helped plug the gap recently by adding an extra 3,011 full-time jobs to the economy in the first quarter of 2012.According to the latest British Retail Con...