ThisisBigBrother.com - UK TV Forums - AsdaWalmart reveals plans to create 5,000 new jobs

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Originally Posted by Locke. (Post 4899880)

"Asda, the UK's second-biggest supermarket, has announced plans to create around 5,000 jobs in a £500m expansion drive this year."

What's the biggest? I thought Asda would be by far

Tesco

Supermarket jobs are hardly wealth-generating are they :

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Half the jobs it created last year had gone to young people, who are currently facing high unemployment, while 8,500 jobs went to people who had signed up through Job Centre Plus.

...... and total unemployment numbers will continue to go up, with redundancies particularly in the public and health sectors :

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Unemployment figures worst for 17 years as 1,300 people a day lose their jobs

Grim statistics showed unemployment rose by 118,000 in the three months to November to reach a 17-year high of 2.68million.

And it was young people who continued to pay the price, with the number of 16-24 year-olds out of work rising by 52,000 to 1.04million - the highest since records began in 1992.

Women also continued to suffer as a result of George Osborne’s economic plans, with the number of women unemployed reaching a 23-year high of 1.128million.

More than a quarter of women - 301,000 - have been unemployed for more than a year.

The Office for National Statistics data also revealed a sharp rise in part-time jobs as people struggle to find a full-time position.

There was a 44,000 rise in the number of people working part-time or for themselves, taking the total to 1.3 million, the highest for 20 years.

TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: “These figures are even worse than the bleak economic forecasts predicted, with new records achieved for youth and female unemployment.

“The fear is now that mass joblessness becomes a permanent scar on the UK – with unemployment rising by 1,300 a day towards the end of last year.

“The news for those in work isn’t great either, with pay growth falling and more people having to move to into part-time and insecure self-employment.”

John Salt, director at recruitment firm totaljobs.com, said: “Whether or not the UK is technically in recession, for those out of work the situation is already dire enough.

“Today’s figures merely confirm what our barometer has been telling us for three months now, that applications per job are at an all-time high of 23, with not enough growth in the labour market to absorb the numbers being laid off. What’s more, the signs for 2012 just aren’t good.”

Paul Kenny, general secretary of the GMB union, said: “This rise in unemployment was made in Downing Street. The truth is that jobs are haemorrhaging in the public and private sectors and no one in the Government seems to know what to do to stop this.

"There are parts of the country in such despair that more than a quarter of households with people of working age have no one in work.

“The number one political priority has to be securing a reduction in unemployment.”

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