Economics, government & business

New graduates coming into the jobs’ market this summer will face a real bun fight, research has warned, with graduate...

Amazon investment in UK totals £40bn between 2025 and 2027, creating thousands of new jobs, mainly outside of London and the South East.

Decision to cut Level 7 apprenticeship levy funding for those aged over 21 will cost employers around £214m in additional training costs.

The government has announced a £1.2 billion annual skills investment as the centrepiece of its new industrial strategy, including a significant boost to technical training and apprenticeships.

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.