Economics, government & business

Vacancies in finance centres around the UK are being filled at the fastest rate since the year 2000.

As the government's MG Rover Task Force concludes its work the remaining 2,000 unemployed former staff attend a local jobs fair

Report that warns that 100,000 NHS jobs should go is slated by NHS Employers as unfair to dedicated staff

Decline in manufacturing accelerates rising trend in unemployment benefit claims

The link between education providers and employers must be improved to tackle the UK's skills gap, business leaders urged last week

Outgoing director general of the CBI Sir Digby Jones is to become a partner at Deloitte

The government has been urged to offer employers tax and national insurance breaks while their staff are on full-time training courses to address severe skills shortages in IT

In response to the Opinion article by Susan Anderson (Personnel Today, 21 March), and certainly going by the mailbag at the Employers Forum on Age (EFA), I am not sure many employers would agree with the CBI's view that the government's age regulation redundancy provisions are all good news

The midpoint in the range of pay increases across the whole economy has registered a second monthly fall, dropping to 2.8%, according to the latest analysis from Personnel Today's sister publication IRS Employment Review

Lib Dems accuse government of refusing to admit to huge NHS hospital budget deficits that will lead to cuts in jobs and front-line services

Plans to help low paid key workers on to the housing ladder go adrift as workers refuse to live in 'public sector ghettos'

Unions have condemned the decision by IT services company CSC to double the number of its employees in India while cutting UK jobs

If you take the forthcoming age regulations and the incapacity benefit reforms together, then the government is planning to get two million people back to work who are currently classed as unfit

The Department of Trade and Industry has amended its regulatory guidance on rolled-up holiday pay officially outlawing the practice

Public sector given split deadline to work smarter.