It seems that every time you turn on the TV news or open a newspaper these days redundancies are in the headlines. Even the armed forces aren’t immune and we are currently engaged in military action around the world.

In our own region just today (05/04/2011) it has been announced that Premier waste who have operations in throughout the North East including Durham, Washington, Gateshead and South Tyneside has transferred half its staff to a rival company and placed the rest in to a consultation process which seems likely to result in at least some redundancies.