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Pay and hours issues were very much on the mind of new members (‘AMs’) of the Welsh assembly in a survey. Two of them told researchers they took a £30,000 pay cut when they were elected to the Senedd and went to Cardiff Bay.

Three hundred and fifty Welsh Country Foods workers whose jobs are threatened plan to elicit support while protesting outside stores in Anglesey and Gwynedd.

Seventeen full and part-time jobs are going in the Ceredigion and Powys area because a charity has gone into voluntary liquidation.

Unemployment in Wales fell by 1,000 between September and November 2012, according to the latest figures. The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) in Wales welcomed the decrease with reservations.

Welsh schools have been criticised for tardy progress on tackling truancy. In 2011/12, out of 170,000 secondary school pupils in Wales, 52,486 missed up to five days of school. More than 18,000 missed more than 25 days.

Caerphilly council holds a special meeting tomorrow (Thursday, January 17, 2013) over the thorny issue of increasing the pay of its chief executive to £158,000.

The Plaid Cymru representative has joined the chorus of criticisms over the maximum pay rise awarded to a Caerphilly council official.

Welsh Secretary David Jones paid tribute to the workforce at a Flintshire factory.

There are fears for the knock-on effect of 500 workers losing their jobs in Port Talbot, while it is expected that 80 more cuts will occur in the Welsh steel industry.

Fifty-one jobs will be axed from a home delivery network hub at Chepstow, Monmouthshire. Administrators Deloitte announced the losses for the insolvent electrical chain Comet on Monday, as part of more than 600 jobs going at 12 distribution hubs.

Redundancies are hoped to be kept to a minimum after a total of 79 health care workers have been consulted at a charity-run brain injury unit in Colwyn Bay, Conwy.

Wales has the second highest proportion of low earners among the United Kingdom.