By JON WOODHOUSE For The Maui News The father and son duo of Jay and Andrew Molina will soon fly from Maui to Europe, where they will first perform at the three-day Ukulele Festival of Great Britain. From there they head over to Ireland and then back to England to tour...
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Millions of people not working is ‘unacceptable’ says Labour
Rising levels of worklessness are “unacceptable” and require “immediate action”, the new Labour government’s jobs minister has said. Liz Kendall is proposing several measures including a new national jobs and careers service to tackle record youth unemployment and rising numbers of those out of work due to long-term sickness. On her first ministerial tour as...
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Miliband vs Mandelson: The battle for the best job in British diplomacy
“David and Peter both have huge strengths,” Knight says. “You could make an argument that Peter’s someone you want close to home. My sense is he has been advising the leader’s office in the run-up to the election. And that went well. If David’s ready to move on from IRC he would be a brilliant...
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Axed Dyson workers reveal they found out they were losing their jobs on the news and claim bosses execute the ruthless cuts quickly ‘to protect trade secrets’ after firm announced it was slashing 1,000 British roles
Former Dyson workers have revealed how they found out about the manufacturer’s plan to cut 1,000 of its British employees’ jobs. Cuts at the vacuum and air appliances manufacturer, founded by Norfolk-born inventor Sir James Dyson, equate to almost a third of its 3,500-strong UK workforce. As employees entered Dyson’s One Cathedral Square in Bristol...
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Dyson: Wiltshire Council frustration over no warning for job cuts
2 hours ago By Karen Gardner, BBC Radio Wiltshire • Sarah Turnnidge, BBC News, West of England Dyson Up to a third of Dyson’s UK workforce will be cut A council leader is “extremely frustrated” over a lack of notice surrounding huge job cuts at engineering giant Dyson. The British-founded company announced on Tuesday it planned to cut up to...
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1,000 jobs to be cut across Dyson’s offices in Britain
Dyson, the British appliance-manufacturing firm is trimming its workforce in the UK by about 1,000. That means, a quarter of its 3,500-strong team across offices in London, Bristol and Wiltshire will be let go. The company, which has been manufacturing vacuum cleaners, air purifiers, hair dryers and other appliances since 1991, has a global workforce...
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How Dyson has ‘abandoned’ UK as it grapples with ‘huge competition’ from lookalike rivals: Experts say tech firm’s ‘devastating’ decision to slash 1,000 jobs was ‘not a surprise’ after new products struggled to take off amid relocation to Singapore
Brexit billionaire Sir James Dyson sparked a major backlash when he decided to relocate his firm’s global headquarters to Singapore just three years after the referendum. He defended the move and has always maintained Dyson is a ‘British company’. But it appears Dyson has turned its back on Britain again by cutting a third of...
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Keir Starmer gives government jobs to brand new MPs
Sir Keir Starmer has given junior ministerial roles to five MPs who were only elected for the first time last week. It is highly unusual for MPs with no previous experience in Parliament to immediately be given government jobs. Georgia Gould, the leader of Sir Keir’s local Camden council and daughter of Blair-era strategist Lord...
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James Dyson: Brexit and beyond – how a ‘made in Britain’ tycoon abandoned his country
Sir James Dyson is a remarkable man. At a youthful 73, he is the richest person in Britain, with a net worth of about £16bn. For purposes of scale, Bill Gates is worth about 10 times as much, but that’s still not bad for the son of a public schoolmaster in Norfolk with no great...
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How Dyson’s ambition to become a British tech giant hit trouble
On the face of it, Dyson’s business is in rude health. Sales hit a record £7.1bn last year, while earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation, a measure of profit, was close to an all-time high at £1.4bn. However, growth has slowed in recent years. Between 2015 and 2019, revenues trebled, climbing from £1.7bn to...
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Dyson to axe 1,000 jobs in UK, FT reports
LONDON: Vacuum cleaner manufacturer Dyson will cut about 1,000 jobs in Britain as part of a global restructuring. The company, founded by James Dyson, the inventor of the bagless cleaner, employs 3,500 people in Britain, including at its R&D centre in Malmesbury, west England. Chief Executive Hanno Kirner said on Tuesday: “We have grown quickly...
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Dyson layoffs: Company to cut around 1,000 jobs in Britain
Jul 09, 2024 07:44 PM IST Dyson layoffs: The company, which was founded by James Dyson, employs 3,500 people in Britain. Vacuum cleaner manufacturer Dyson will cut almost 1,000 jobs in Britain, over a quarter of its workforce in the country, as part of a global restructuring, its CEO said. The company, which was founded...