Job creation and losses

New postings fell in the week of 17-23 October, with 154,000 new job advertisements posted – 3.4% lower than a month earlier.

The last thing businesses will want to do is to compound their financial problems with avoidable errors in the redundancy process that render cost-saving dismissals unfair.

Workplace pressures are severely undermining the capacity of adult social care in England to provide services and may lead to the sector's collapse.

New chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced that the government will no longer reverse the off-payroll IR35 reforms announced in the mini Budget.

The value of regular pay falls 2.9% in the three months to August 2022, as the squeeze on workers’ pay continues.

Getting on for half of HR leaders have reported that their company is losing up to 15% in revenues because of the UK labour shortage.

Many of those whose jobs will disappear will be encouraged to apply for the 500 existing vacancies in its head office, the company stated.

There were 143,000 new job postings last week – the lowest number since early spring this year.

Almost 1,000 London-based civil service jobs have been relocated to Scotland since March 2020.

A Labour government would reinstate the top rate of income tax and use the revenue to hire more NHS workers, Rachel Reeves has said.

Firms' plans to recruit more staff fly in face of warnings of recession.

Around 100 staff at Clarence House, the former residence of King Charles III, have been warned they are at risk of redundancy.

Unemployment in the UK reaches its lowest since 1974 and the number of job vacancies has fallen.

Greater economic uncertainty, rising costs and candidate shortages all affected employers' ability to hire both permanent and temporary staff in August.

Last week, there were 2.08 million active job adverts in the UK, a new record high for 2022.