A Flintshire-based national retailer claims its staff have been given an inflation-beating pay increase. Deeside based firm Iceland Foods was named the sixth best big company to work for in the UK in the annual Sunday Times Best Companies survey of 2011.
Plans for shops and a restaurant in Welshpool are expected to generate more than 100 jobs. The 180-seat restaurant will create 50 jobs; and three shops new, costing about £2.5 million, are expected to generate 75 jobs.
Arriva Trains Wales says it has "no current plans at this time” to close any of its ticket offices following a review which recommends closing more than a third of the offices.
The Trostre tinplate works in Llanelli will have production halted for a week. More than 700 staff are employed at Trostre but owners Tata said the production cessation will not lead to any job losses.
The Ysgol Uwchradd Tywyn school has been hit by a teachers’ strike beginning today (Tuesday, September 6, 2011). The teaching union is starting industrial action at the Gwynedd secondary school over job cuts and changes to their contracts.
The future of some 40 workers based at a hydro-electric power station at Ewloe is in doubt. Staff at International Power’s offices will be offered the chance to relocate. The firm holds the controlling stake in First Hydro which runs the plants at Dinorwic and Ffestiniog.
Hundreds of Swansea staff at the DVLA and at the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in Newport are being balloted over strike action over pay.
The Welsh Government is being urged to complete its plans for zones designed to breathe new life into economic blackspots via offering incentives to businesses.
A march calling for more jobs, training and education in Wales has been organised by members of the pressure group Youth Fight for Jobs. The three-day plan of action will have some backing from trade unions and some Socialist party members.
Tim Peppin from the Welsh Local Government Association said a rise in metal thefts affecting anything from bins to bollards was a very pressing problem for councils.