job losses december 2009
December 23 2008 - 280 jobs
Men's fashion chain The Officers Club fell into administration on December 23. Accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers took charge of the company, axing 280 jobs and shutting down 32 of its 150 stores with immediate effect.
December 17 2008 - 750 jobs
Bus and train operator National Express reveals it will cut up to 750 jobs in a bid to save £15m next year, after the weakness of the pound cost the company £90m in the second half of the year.
December 16 2008 - 54 jobs
HP Bulmer Ltd told staff at its factory in Hereford that 54 jobs would be lost from the bottling line.
December 12 2008 - 2,600 jobs
Santander, the Spanish owner of Abbey, Alliance & Leicester and Bradford & Bingley, announced plans to cut 1,900 jobs at the three British banks next year.
Seven hundred staff at Entertainment UK (EUK), the CD and DVD distribution arm of Woolworths, lose their jobs after a buyer for the division could not be found.
December 8 2008 - 150 jobs
British Airways announced plans to cut a further 100 jobs taking the number of redundancies at the firm past 500 this year.
Postman Pat owner Entertainment Rights said it planned to cut 50 jobs , a third of its workforce, as it revealed the collapse of Woolworths had left it around £800,000 out of pocket.
December 5 2008 - 450 jobs
Administrator Deliotte said that 450 jobs will go from Woolworths' "support operations" in London and Rochdale. The two offices employ more than 1,100 staff. There have been no redundancies in the retailer's high street stores, its distribution centres or at EUK.
December 4 2008 - 4,400 jobs
Nomura, the Japanese broker, said it would cut up to 1,000 jobs in London following a takeover of failed Wall Street giant Lehman Brothers' operations.
HMRC announced plans to sack 3,400 tax officials as banks shed workers
December 3 2008 - 794 jobs
GlaxoSmithKline, the UK's largest pharmaceutical company, said it would be cutting 200 jobs at its North East manufacturing site. The redundancies at Barnard Castle, County Durham, which employs about 1,000 staff, will be made over the next 12 to 18 months.
Experian, the company that runs credit checks, revealed its intended to cut 300 jobs from its operations in Britain and Ireland.
About 200 people lost their jobs after JA Magson, the toy and stationary distributor, collapsed into administration.
Pinnacle Entertainment also went into administration with the loss of 94 jobs .
December 2 2008 - 817 jobs
Glasgow-based Bowie Castlebank Group, which includes photo-processing chains Klick Photopoint and Max Spielman and dry cleaner William Munro, said it was shedding 817 jobs across its businesses after being placed in administration.
December 1 2008 - 2,000 jobs
Aston Martin said it was planning to axe up to 600 full-time and temporary jobs because of the downturn in the world economy, hitting the company's factory at Gaydon in Warwickshire.
Car accessory and bicycle retailer Halfords confirmed that about 200 posts would be cut across its network of more than 450 stores, along with 50 more at its head office in Redditch, Worcestershire.
HSBC cut 500 jobs across the UK from non-customer facing positions.
Investment bank Credit Suisse said it was shedding 650 staff , approximately 10pc of its British workforce.
