Economics, government & business

A ‘small burst of hiring’ meant that new UK job postings went up by just over 6% in June, according to the REC.

Four in five employees received a smaller pay award in 2025 than in the previous year, as employers increasingly show restraint.

Pub chain BrewDog will close 10 bars, blaming ‘extremely difficult’ economic conditions for hospitality.

Home Office agreement made with food couriers Deliveroo, Just Eat and Uber Eats to crack down on illegal working.

Ministers who leave office following a serious breach of conduct rules will be stopped from getting pay-outs from October this year.

Government launches new Pensions Commission to examine why tomorrow’s pensioners are expected to be poorer than today’s.

The hospitality sector accounted for almost half of job losses in the latest employment figures from the Office for National Statistics.

Jaguar Land Rover will cut up to 500 management roles in the UK after facing financial pressures from US trade tariffs.

Excluding the volatile period caused by the pandemic, UK job vacancies have fallen to their lowest level in a decade, according to ONS.

Reforms to sick pay being introduced by the Employment Rights Bill could deliver benefits of more than £2bn to the UK economy, analysis from the TUC suggests.

ONS announces an unexpected rise in inflation to 3.6% in June 2025, still significantly higher than the Bank of England’s target of 2%.

Employers may have to pay more into staff retirement pots under plans being considered by chancellor Rachel Reeves.

Postmasters could take over the running and ownership of the Post Office, the government has suggested, under plans to reimagine...

The latest survey of recruitment consultancies signalled an accelerated decline in hiring activity across the UK at the end of the second quarter.

Around 5,000 jobs have been secured following the start of construction on Tata Steel’s electric arc furnace at Port Talbot today.