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Politicians need to be more ‘practical’ about immigration and support employers to attract foreign workers to solve worker shortages, according...

Many concerns about the autumn statement have focused on whether the measures will help tackle the skills and labour shortage and make more likely the possibility of redundancies this winter.

Ethnic employment gaps have closed ‘substantially’ since the 1990s, according to research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, but pay...

New figures show the extent to which UK businesses are turning to talent in south Asia and sub-Saharan Africa to plug their skills gaps.

The proportion of overqualified workers has grown significantly since 1992, according to CIPD research.

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

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

‘Genuinely self-employed contractors thrown under the bus’: further reaction from payroll and tax compliance specialists on the U-turn on IR35 reform.

'There are no quick fixes. It is not enough to tear things down – we need to take time to build': REC.

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

Ministers and officials are thought to be reviewing visas and immigration rules to see what can be done to ease the labour shortage and help businesses grow. What are their options?

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.

The Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham this week has produced plenty of headlines about political infighting, but what about the policies?