Economics, government & business

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has welcomed new figures indicating an unexpected rate of growth for the UK economy in February.

SME hiring falls from 24% of companies in Q4 2024 to 20% in Q1 2025, while 17% have cut back on staff, according to the BCC.

Rob Moss examines eight potential new equality laws, including race and disability equal pay rules and dual discrimination claims.

British Steel could be nationalised as fears grow over the future of the company’s blast furnaces in Scunthorpe.
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The first Universal theme park in Europe will be built in the UK, creating around 28,000 jobs.

Of all businesses surveyed about right to work checks, 80% answered at least one compliance question incorrectly, and are at risk of non-compliance.

Dozens of quangos could be shut down in a bid to run Whitehall more efficiently, it has been reported.

'Army' of young people to be trained for green energy jobs and apprenticeships needed to deliver clean power by 2030. 

Closer alignment with the EU was becoming an urgent priority for many businesses, the IoD poll found.

Sharon Graham writes to Angela Rayner: ‘The current escalation increasingly looks like a declaration of war on these workers’

The UK’s construction firms cut jobs at the fastest rate for four years in March as the sector’s downturn in activity continued.

JCB has said it will expand its US operations in response to President Trump’s tariffs – with the effect on UK jobs as yet unclear.

Publicly listed companies that have narrowed their gender pay gaps have seen double-digit revenue growth, according to new analysis.

‘Exporters to the US will be forced to review the viability of the US as a destination for their goods, and as a supply chain location.’

For the very first time, the Home Office stated, employment checks would be extended to cover businesses hiring gig economy and zero-hours workers.