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• Average weekly earnings go up in construction

  I took a quick glimpse at the Average Weekly Earnings figures out today to see if there was an obvious sign of downward pressure on those employed in construction. Well comparing the average weekly earnings over the three months to this April with the... Posted Jun 24 2009, 11:43 AM by Brickonomics Filed under: construction industry, recession, redundancies, construction workforce, job vacancies, earnings

• Redundancies ravage the construction workforce - 141,000 jobs gone in the past 12 months

  The numbers made redundant in construction over the past 12 months have mounted to 141,000, according to the latest set of figures released by the official statisticians at ONS. Almost 100,000 of those redundancies were made in the six months from October... Posted May 12 2009, 03:51 PM by Brickonomics Filed under: unemployment, redundancies, ONS, job vacancies, workforce jobs

• Construction job vacancies evaporate as recession bites

  The latest batch of employment figures provides little comfort to the thousands of construction workers who are now looking for jobs, as vacancies in the industry have plunged deeper. The figures show that in the three months to March this year there... Posted Apr 22 2009, 11:04 AM by Brickonomics Filed under: construction industry, unemployment, recession, foreign workers, employment, redundancies, economy, job vacancies, econstruction firms