Economics, government & business

Low-paid workers could receive up to £1,000 under 'Britannia Card' proposal to provide tax exemptions for non-doms.

Aldi is recruiting for 1,000 new store roles as it ramps up its store openings programme between now and the...

Employees had a more a positive outlook on proposed plans to close the skills gap than business leaders, the O'Reilly research suggests.

There was a month-by-month increase in the number of new job postings in the UK in May, new figures reveal.

Allianz tells employees in its UK insurance arm that it is to cut 650 jobs because of difficult market conditions.

Poundland plans to close 68 stores and two warehouses with reports estimating that between 1,000 and 2,000 jobs are at risk.

Dentists from overseas are being forced to work in McDonald’s due to bureaucracy preventing them working in the UK.

One-third of businesses plan job cuts after increase in national insurance contributions (NICs), with one in five having done so already.

Almost a quarter (23%) of workers aged 16-24 rate their mental health as poor, and are most likely to report work has negative impact (34%).

A number of figures in the HR and employment space have been awarded in the King’s birthday honours list.
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Candidates availability in May 2025 rose at its fastest pace since 2020, amid reports of redundancies and fewer job opportunities.

We round up reaction from labour market commentators to chancellor Rachel Reeves' Spending Review, published today.

UK job vacancies fall by 150,000 or 16.9% in the three months to the end of May 2025 compared to a year ago and are now 7.4% below pre-pandemic levels.

UK employers’ hiring confidence for the third quarter of this year has dropped 12%, the steepest quarterly fall in recent...

Consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble will cut 7,000 jobs over the next two years as it deals with increased economic pressures.