Who's Hiring

• Canadian-based aerospace company Bombardier is hiring 100 staff for its Belfast plant to fill engineering, supply chain, customer support and finance roles.
• Nissan's Washington plant, in North-East England, has announced it will build a new compact soft-roader vehicle, securing 1,300 jobs and creating an unknown number of new positions.
• Asda is building a £20m store on a retail and leisure development in north Belfast, creating 150 new jobs.

Who's Firing

• News agency Thomson Reuters has confirmed 140 journalist jobs will be lost by the end of the year. The cuts are being made where there is an overlap in news coverage, primarily in Europe.
• Financial services firm UBS has cut 56 staff from its wealth management business in Mayfair, London over the last two weeks.
• New York City's Off-Track Betting has sent redundancy notices to 1,200 employees, after shutting down 62 betting shops.
• Engineering company Smith Group is firing 65 workers by the end of the year because the company is relocating its headquarters away from Britain for tax reasons.
• The merger between market research companies Taylor Nelson Sofres and GfK will lead to the loss of 500 jobs. The company aims to save £76m over three years through the staff reductions.