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UK employment

  • Monday, 29 July, 2024
    Inside BusinessAnjli Raval
    Bosses regain the upper hand in hiring

    Balance of power in job markets is shifting back to employers

    People line up as they wait for the JobNewsUSA.com South Florida Job Fair to open
  • Friday, 26 July, 2024
    Camilla Cavendish
    The welfare state is writing too many people off too early

    Sorting out worklessness is a challenge for Labour as a study in Barnsley says most of the economically inactive do want jobs

    Jonathan McHugh illustration of a pair of Dr Martin’s black booths with pink wings in the clouds, tied to each other with their laces.
  • Monday, 22 July, 2024
    Starmer pledges to ‘fire up’ the training of UK workers to boost growth

    Prime minister insists government will resist ‘easy lever’ of foreign labour

    Keir Starmer delivers a speech at Farnborough International Airshow
  • Sunday, 21 July, 2024
    UK public services
    Reeves hints at imminent above-inflation pay deals for teachers and nurses

    UK chancellor says ‘there is a cost to not settling’ even as Treasury grapples with straitened finances

    Rachel Reeves
  • Friday, 19 July, 2024
    Overhaul of workers’ rights raises alarm among employers

    Businesses say Labour’s proposals to give protection against unfair dismissal from day one lack clarity

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  • Thursday, 18 July, 2024
    Julia Hobsbawm
    From grandiose to granular: Labour’s challenge for work

    New government talks a good game on improving employment but needs departments to work together

    A photo of Prime Minister Keir Starmer reading through his King’s Speech in the cabinet office in 10 Downing Street
  • Thursday, 18 July, 2024
    UK economy
    Bank of England faces at least six more months without crucial jobs data

    Delay causes problems for policymakers making interest rate decisions with only limited details about state of UK workforce

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  • Thursday, 18 July, 2024
    UK housebuilding
    Labour’s homebuilding plans at risk from skills shortage, industry says

    Construction sector training body warns of shortfall of 150,000 workers

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  • Wednesday, 17 July, 2024
    UK tax
    HMRC clamps down on abuse of tax-saving workplace childcare scheme

    Employers are failing to meet the eligibility criteria as third party ‘agents’ reap profits, experts warn

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  • Tuesday, 16 July, 2024
    UK immigration
    UK food sector should cover migrant workers’ upfront costs, advisers say

    Migration Advisory Committee urges government to do more to stamp out abuses in seasonal worker scheme

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  • Tuesday, 16 July, 2024
    Take part in our survey: Best UK Employers 2025

    If you work for a company in Great Britain or Northern Ireland, please provide us with an employee evaluation for our new ranking

  • Friday, 12 July, 2024
    Amazon launches anti-union charm offensive ahead of UK workers’ vote

    Campaign is part of tech giant’s long-running global battle to prevent employees from organising

    The GMB union campaigns outside Amazon’s offices in Coventry
  • Wednesday, 10 July, 2024
    Jobcentre revamp to focus on career advice rather than policing benefits

    Proposals from new work and pensions minister Liz Kendall aim to tackle UK’s high level of economic inactivity

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  • Wednesday, 10 July, 2024
    Tom Sperlinger
    Labour must address who our universities are for

    Back in power, the party will quickly realise it has unfinished business opening up higher education to spread opportunity

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  • Sunday, 7 July, 2024
    Pilita Clark
    The new normal of office life

    As working from home persists, companies are rethinking the role of office space

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  • Sunday, 7 July, 2024
    The workplace under Labour: employers braced for biggest shake-up in a generation

    From ending zero-hour contracts to boosting benefits, Britain’s new government wants to shift power back to staff

    A tug-of-war with red and blue arrows pointing in opposite directions
  • Thursday, 27 June, 2024
    News in-depthUK economy
    Economic strengths and weaknesses facing next UK government — in charts

    Britain enjoys strong services exports and a solid education system but low productivity growth and stagnant living standards

  • Thursday, 27 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Business leaders back Labour plans to overhaul apprenticeship levy

    Letter signed by 57 executives supports opposition’s proposed ‘growth and skills levy’

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  • Saturday, 22 June, 2024
    Meredith Whitney
    A job too far? The problem of the multi-gig professional

    Now that employers are demanding workers return to the office, trouble is brewing

    A woman at her computer working from home
  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    Sarah O'Connor
    Zero-hours contracts — an obituary

    These arrangements remain a blight on Britain’s labour market

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  • Tuesday, 11 June, 2024
    UK pay grows 5.9% despite slowing jobs market

    Annual rise in average weekly wages remained steady in three months to April, data shows

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  • Tuesday, 4 June, 2024
    News in-depthConstruction sector
    Britain has big infrastructure plans. But where are the workers?

    Shortage of skilled staff worsened by Brexit and new visa requirements, say construction experts

    Montage of a person operating a theodolite set on a construction workers graphic
  • Monday, 3 June, 2024
    Special ReportUpskilling
    Case study: joining up skills and health support in Wales

    Local initiatives are combining wellbeing and employment assistance to help people enter the workforce

    a narrow street scene with old and new buildings on both sides, and a few pedestrians walking
  • Sunday, 2 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Labour’s pledge to cut work visas worries business

    Employers nervous that potential curbs would make it harder for them to hire from abroad

    Keir Starmer
  • Thursday, 30 May, 2024
    UK economy
    UK living standards have lagged most peer nations since 2010, report finds

    IFS says Britain has sunk to ‘bottom of league table’ with earnings growth eaten up by higher taxes and mortgages

    Workers cross London Bridge
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