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  • Friday, 22 September, 2023
    UK economy
    UK recession risk increases as services activity falls

    PMIs weaken to lowest in almost three years as companies cut jobs

    A woman shops in a grocery store
  • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
    National Health Service
    Number of UK nursing students plummets despite NHS shortages

    Low wages and student debt worries are believed to have undermined applications, putting workforce plan in doubt

    A nurse walks through an NHS hospital ward
  • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
    Sarah O'Connor
    Why don’t people leave bad jobs?

    Giving workers a bit more security might make the labour market more flexible, not less

    A man and a woman ponder as they look at a door marked ‘exit’
  • Friday, 15 September, 2023
    UK manufacturing
    UK agrees £500mn deal to secure Port Talbot steelworks

    Unions condemn agreement with Tata steel that could result in thousands of job losses

    Workers outside Tata Steel’s Port Talbot steelworks in south Wales
  • Friday, 15 September, 2023
    UK politics
    Dominic Raab and other Tory MPs prepare for life after parliament

    With the Labour party 18 points ahead in the polls many Conservatives are weighing up their career prospects

  • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
    Hybrid working boosts number of UK women in full-time jobs, study finds

    Public First research points to benefits of more flexible employment policies

    A woman walks along a street looking at her mobile phone
  • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
    Trades Union Congress
    Angela Rayner pledges higher sick pay under a Labour government

    Deputy leader tells TUC the party would improve worker rights and build more council houses

    Angela Rayner addresses the Trades Union Congress in Liverpool
  • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
    UK wages grow at 7.8% despite slowing jobs market

    Average pay now growing faster than inflation, reinforcing Bank of England’s concerns

    Commuters crossing London Bridge
  • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
    UK government looks to roll back sickness benefits

    Critics say move would leave vulnerable people in hardship without significant boost to number employed

    A woman in a wheelchair works in an office
  • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
    UK retail industry
    Wilko break-up begins with 1,300 more job losses

    Rival discounter B&M to acquire 51 stores but a similar number will close next week

    A Wilko store in Kensington, London
  • Monday, 4 September, 2023
    Emma Jacobs
    Why companies need to raise their game on skills training

    Jobs are evolving fast — but too many employers are not helping their staff keep up

    Two women in the office, analysing data on a smartphone
  • Monday, 4 September, 2023
    UK economy
    UK wages: which sectors are driving up pay?

    Britain could see interest rates rise further as pay growth remains high

    montage of a worker in front of a graphic
  • Sunday, 3 September, 2023
    Apprenticeship levy
    English councils seek devolution of apprenticeships as uptake sinks

    CCN calls for restoration of adult education budget to 2010 levels and says levy has failed

  • Tuesday, 29 August, 2023
    UK government spending
    One in 11 workers in England will be employed in NHS by 2036, IFS calculates

    Long-term workforce plan acknowledges virtual inevitability of big increases in health spending, study finds

    Staff on NHS ward
  • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
    UK retail industry
    Wilko administrators warn of ‘likely’ job losses and store closures

    PwC continues to seek buyer for UK discount retailer after its collapse earlier this month

    Exterior of a Wilko
  • Friday, 18 August, 2023
    Labour Party UK
    Angela Rayner defends Labour party’s stance on workers’ rights

    Deputy leader’s promise of ‘biggest levelling-up’ in decades comes after FT reported plans had been watered down

    Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner
  • Friday, 18 August, 2023
    Inside Politics
    Diluting worker pledges leaves Labour open to fire from all sides

    Risks of the party’s strategy heighten as officials enjoy less freedom to tailor messages to certain audiences

    Labour leader Keir Starmer speaks to a local resident in Exeter, England
  • Friday, 18 August, 2023
    Work & Careers
    Is a degree worth it?

    Employers are starting to look more at skills than education, which is good news for students opting not to go to university

    Montage image of a bin with mortar boards and some line graphs
  • Thursday, 17 August, 2023
    News in-depthLabour Party UK
    Labour rows back on workers’ rights to blunt Tory ‘anti-business’ claims

    Starmer dilutes pledge to boost protections for gig economy as party focuses on winning over Britain’s corporate leaders

    Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer
  • Wednesday, 16 August, 2023
    UK inflation
    UK inflation slows to 6.8% in July as energy prices fall

    Lower gas and electricity bills bring rate down but underlying pressures fail to ease

    A shopper looks at items on a supermarket shelf next to a shopping trolley
  • Tuesday, 15 August, 2023
    UK inflation
    Record UK wage growth fuels inflation concerns

    Markets price in further interest rate rise after data shows private sector pay rose 8.2% in three months to June

    Office workers walking across London Bridge
  • Sunday, 13 August, 2023
    UK business
    UK employers increasingly resort to bidding wars to retain staff, says survey

    Research by HR body appears to contradict data suggesting labour market is cooling

    An office worker on an escalator
  • Tuesday, 8 August, 2023
    Sarah O'Connor
    In praise of the ‘techies’ who make companies more productive

    As it stands on the verge of the next industrial revolution, Britain needs people who can put new technology to good use

    A man and a woman wear high-visibility vests and hard hats and carry notepads
  • Friday, 4 August, 2023
    International Airlines Group
    British Airways and union agree 13% pay rise for 24,000 staff

    Airline industry has been trying to avoid a repeat of last year’s travel chaos

  • Thursday, 27 July, 2023
    UK fishing
    UK seafood sector in talks to clean up labour standards on fishing vessels

    Supermarkets among groups behind pilot scheme to combat human rights abuses in British fleet

    Fish being unloaded from a boat
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