Who's hiring?

• The US Air Force awarded a multi-billion pound contract to Los Angeles-based Northrop Grumman and Airbus parent EADS to build 179 Airbus A330-200 planes, protecting 13,000 jobs at Airbus UK, a further 32,000 in the UK supply chain and 90,000 linked jobs around the country.
• Chase Paymentech is to create up to 100 new jobs over the next three years at its new European headquarters in Dublin.
• Up to 700 hi-tech jobs could be created at a 35,000 sq ft speculative office scheme at the £100m Celtic Springs Business Park in Newport in a joint venture by developers AWG and Robert Hitchins.
• Crucible Park, the £12.5m, 100,000 sq ft office development in Swansea, is expected to create 1,000 new jobs when it is finished.
• BMW has announced it will invest $750m (£373m) as part of plans to increase production in the US creating 500 new jobs at the Spartanburg plant, South Carolina, US.

Who's firing?

• TNT, Europe's express-delivery service, and ING Groep, said their Dutch post-office banking joint venture will cut 1,850 jobs over the next five years as the partnership ends.
• Europe's largest engineering group Siemens has cut 6,800 jobs as a cost cutting programme ahead of the sale of its corporate telecomms unit.
• 115 clerical and management staff have lost their job at the York headquarters of the East Coast Main Line, now being run by National Express.
• Investment bank Lehman Brothers is cutting 1,425 jobs — most in the US but also at its European HQ at Canary Wharf, London.