A buy out has safeguarded about 130 jobs at one of Welshpool’s major employers. Montgomeryshire MP Glyn Davies welcomed the sale of Technocover as “wonderful news”.
A total of 249 workers in Cardiff will lose their jobs. Those affected were called into a meeting at the Cardiff headquarters of clothing retailer Peacocks this week as almost half the workforce will be involved, while 266 staff will keep their jobs.
Solicitor Victoria Cannon highlighted a common issue in Wales when she had found problems trying to recruit a legal assistant for her firm’s Brecon office.
South Wales Police increased their overtime spending from £6,041,604 in 2010 to £6,758,056 in the 11 months up to November 2011. This is at a time when public expenditure is undergoing a big squeeze.
A new report highlights astonishing sickness levels in the Swansea and Neath Port Talbot area. The figures show that 30 per cent of adults are living with a limiting long-term illness in the Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board region.
A consultation is beginning with staff at a site in Mold. Jeyes has had a depot on the Bromfield Industrial Estate since 1979 and the company says it is reviewing whether to continue manufacturing in Mold or close the factory.
Conwy council is one of many to say its payroll system means it has to make deductions in January of a day’s pay from workers who walked out last month.
Council services in Wales were limited because of a one-day strike over pensions on Wednesday. In Blaenau Gwent there were no council services operating except for a selection of emergency services such as Meals on Wheels.
A local MP has praised the role of a Powys timber firm in maintaining employment in the area. BSW Timber is taking on 25 jobs at its plant. It employs 120 workers at Newbridge-on-Wye, near Builth Wells.
Silence will rein over three depots in Wales of the delivery network Yodel. The firm is planning to shut bases in Cardiff, Anglesey and Carmarthenshire early next year.
