Labour market

Seven in 10 employers across the UK are still witnessing a shortage of all types of candidates for their roles, new research reveals.

Sickness absence by geography: Think tank finds areas with high levels of ill-health have growing long-term sickness trends.

The UK jobs market experienced its biggest monthly fall in vacancies in more than three years in December, as business...

The average number of hours worked in the UK has fallen at a rate equivalent to the loss of 310,000 workers, figures have suggested.

Totaljobs’ latest Hiring Trends Index found that securing another job with higher pay was the leading factor behind staff resignations in Q3 last year.

LinkedIn found that almost half (48%) of the fastest-growing job titles in the UK did not exist 20 years ago.

Pay growth continued to outpace inflation in autumn 2023, but at a slower rate, January 2024 labour market figures show.

Henley Business School has identified six types of worker that have emerged post-pandemic, with many keen for flexibility.

December 2023 saw a continued rise in candidate availability with economic uncertainty causing redundancies and a slowdown in hiring.

In November 2023, overall UK job advertisements fell 2.72% compared with October, and are down 8.55% compared with last year.

Pay growth slowed as vacancies continued to fall, December 2023 labour market figures from the ONS show.

UK's economic prospects were not helped by the government's 'pro-election rather than pro-economy decision on immigration' says REC.

The high numbers were partly accounted for by the fact just over half (15,067) of these new joiners were educated in the UK.

Net migration hit a record-breaking 745,000 in 2022, according to a revised analysis from the Office for National Statistics.

Ministers have claimed that changes announced in the Autumn Statement will ‘tear down barriers’ to work for more than 2.4...