Labour market

An EU-UK Youth Mobility Scheme is an opportunity to address labour shortages and help the reset of post-Brexit relations.

Robert Walters slashes more than 700 jobs in the past year and 159 in the last three months due to falling job vacancies.

New official data suggests a mixed picture for the UK’s labour market, with employment down on the previous month

More than one in five people with neurodivergent conditions are not in employment, research commissioned by Heston Blumenthal OBE reveals.

September saw a further fall in the number of permanent staff placements, new figures show, as businesses await the new UK government's first Budget.

A tightening UK jobs market saw competition for new roles reach a three-year peak in August.

The Home Office has issued further details of how it intends to reduce the flow of migrant workers into the UK.

Skills England publishes first report, ‘setting the scene’ for its role as ‘the driving force’ behind the much-needed upskilling of the economy.

The UK’s labour force is diminishing at its fastest rate since the late 1980s, the Commission on the Future of Employment Support reveals.

CPI inflation stood at 2.2% in the year to August 2024, unchanged from July, but RPI fell 0.1 percentage points.

The UK is falling behind other major Western countries when it comes to attracting highly skilled foreign workers, according to new data from Indeed.

The rate of UK unemployment has dropped to 4.1% this quarter, data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has revealed.

The number of active job postings in July 2024 increased by 2.4% from the previous month, new data has shown.

The CPI, CPIH and RPI measures of inflation all increase in the 12 months to July 2024, to above the Bank of England target.

Unemployment has fallen unexpectedly while wage growth continues to slow, new figures from the Office for National Statistics have revealed.