Tag: jobs
Boost for Scotland’s renewables sector as report shows 11,000 jobs currently...
By a Newsnet reporter The strength of Scotland’s renewables sector and investment in Scotland’s wind and wave energy potential has been reaffirmed with the...
SNP critical of Remploy job cuts
Commenting on the UK Government's decision to close the Remploy plants in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Motherwell, Clare Adamson, a member of the Education...
Hundreds of new jobs in pipeline as ScottishPower announces £5 billion...
By a Newsnet reporter ScottishPower has announced plans to recruit 300 engineers as it upgrades the electricity network in central and southern Scotland. The power...
SNP call for urgent UK jobs summit to combat unemployment
By a Newsnet reporter Too many Scots are paying the price for the UK government’s ill-judged economic policies, the SNP said today, as the...
Renewables jobs boost for Fife as Samsung announce significant investment
By G.A.Ponsonby Korean giant Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) is to base its first European offshore wind project in Fife in an inward venture worth...
Calls for alternative broadcasting model for Scotland as BBC axes jobs...
by Martin Kelly An SNP MSP is calling for Scotland to have greater accountability for broadcasting following reports that one third of BBC Radio...
Scotland’s private sector ends 2011 with 12 months of growth
By Russell Bruce The latest Bank of Scotland Purchasing Manager’s Report (PMI) for December confirms that businesses in Scotland succeeded in delivering month...
Calls for jobs summit as Cameron admits coalition plan not working
SNP Treasury Spokesperson, Stewart Hosie MP has called for a jobs summit to address the state of the UK economy after Tory PM David...
Secret papers show Westminster ‘pipeline veto’ cost thousands of North Sea...
By G.A.Ponsonby Secret files published after the 30 year rule have revealed that the Tory government in the 1980s refused to fund a north...
Private job creation boost as Scottish unemployment rate edges ahead of...
By a Newsnet reporter The creation of jobs by Scotland’s private sector has outstripped those of the UK as a whole as the jobless...