A former nurse for the Swansea NHS Trust has just gone on trial for allegedly working two jobs at the same time, thus posing a risk for her patients’ safety.
Beside the aforementioned position, Denise Davies, aged 55, was also employed as an agency nurse at Trostre steelworks. The court heard that between the two jobs, she would have been working 19 hours a day, four days a week.
A site at Magor in Monmouthshire which employs 800 people will be shedding 150 supermarket staff. This is because shopping giant Tesco is reorganising its distribution system in the UK with the closure of three centres.
The future of a Welshpool factory is under review after a buy-out by a business rival. The Powys car parts company employs almost 150 people. Denso Manufacturing has taken over Shimizu Industry UK (SI-UK) which makes parts for the likes of Caterpillar in Welshpool.
A fire crew from Johnstown and three from Wrexham were called to Wrexham Maelor Hospital on Friday after staff raised the alarm. A small conflagration was reported in a room off the unoccupied outpatient ward at the hospital at 23:39 GMT.
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.