Employment

BAN MPs Employing Family Members

? The people of the United Kingdon, call on the House of Commons authorities to immediately ban MPs? from employing family members in any capacity related to their publicly funded work. All employment positions for MP's staff must be publicly advertised in a government Job Centre or additionally...

Fight Crown TK Maxx Ban

This petition looks to bring to light the behaviour of The Crown Estate (whose income goes to the taxpayer) in refusing designer store TK Maxx from opening a flagship store in the West End because it is not "high class" enough. The Estate would prefer the site, which has been empty for four years,...

SAVE Ken Wood

Hello everyone, some of you may know me, my name is Rebecca and I am a student of UCA Maidstone... I set up the Act Now! campaign to save our campus.... With all your support I'm now asking you to please continue on another stressful matter. Currently academic staff and technicians are fighting...

chesterfieldworklessness

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to to ensure that Chesterfield Borough Council is closely monitored with regards to how it spends £4.2 million granted to the council under the Working Neighbourhoods Fund to tackle worklessness. Chesterfield Borough Council was granted £4.2...

Stop the Royal London Society for the Blind Workshop Closure

We, the undersigned, are extremely concerned at the decision to close the RLSB London workshop and call on the RLSB to reverse this decision and protect the employment of the blind and partially sighted workers employed at the workshop.

Save mac staff jobs

When mac (Midlands Arts Centre) closes on 6th April 2008, all mac staff are being made redundant. On re-opening in Autumn 2009, re-employment of current staff is not guaranteed. We are asking the public to support us in calling on the mac board to guarantee the re-employment of redundant staff on re-opening...

Cadburys

Confectionery giant Cadbury Schweppes is to close its Keynsham factory, near Bristol, by 2010 with the loss of about 500 jobs, a further 200 jobs would go at its Bournville plant, in Birmingham, with production being moved to Poland Please sign our petition and support for the workers of Cadbury.