Labour market

Active job postings have remained stable with between 1.39 to 1.5 million active job adverts since mid-August.

Designed to encourage middle-aged people to pursue a new career as cabin crew, the campaign targets ‘empty nesters’, those whose children have left home and are no longer dependent on them.

UK employers face a shrinking labour force and will continue to wrestle with hiring challenges into 2023 and beyond, according to a forecasts released by sister companies Indeed and Glassdoor.

The Labour leader will set our Labour's immigration policy at the CBI annual conference. He will call for an end to cheap labour from abroad.

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?