
DURRELL is making up to 14 staff redundant as part of a major cost-cutting review to claw back £600,000.
TEACHERS have moved closer to taking strike action in January over the States pay freeze.
HOME Affairs are looking into whether the Island should adopt a vetting and barring scheme for anyone working with children or vulnerable adults.
THE number of Islanders registered as unemployed is likely to pass the 1,000 mark by Christmas – a figure that has been exceeded only once since the early 1990s.
JERSEY’S retirement age could go up to 68 because the ageing population is expected to empty the Social Security fund in just over 25 years.
ABOUT 1,000 public sector workers turned up at a mass meeting last night to vent their anger and protest against the States-imposed pay freeze.
BUSINESSES are about to find it harder to get permits to employ people who have not lived here for five years, Chief Minister Terry Le Sueur told the States this week.
ISLAND employers are being asked to provide work experience for unemployed school leavers for up to six months.