Economics, government & business

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.

IoD: ‘Government has yet to show that it is listening to the concerns of business about the potential unintended consequences of the Bill as it is currently drafted.’

Government introduces Pension Schemes Bill, which is designed to make pensions easier to understand and manage.

The education secretary has written to Skills England setting out the government’s priorities for skills development in the year ahead.

Government 's submarine programme to support 30,000 high-skill jobs and double number of apprentice and graduate roles.

Each business body has struck a very different tone with the IoD highlighting a ‘recovery in business confidence’, while the CBI found ‘little sign of summer cheer.’

The House of Lords will resume their detailed scrutiny of the Employment Rights Bill at committee stage on Tuesday 3 June.

Migrant workers in IT and engineering professionals have a positive financial impact on the UK, finds MAC study.

Trade disruptions lead ILO to revise down global employment growth forecast for 2025, projecting 7 million fewer jobs.

Ministers have confirmed the new Pension Schemes Bill, which loosens rules around how surplus pension funds can be extracted from defined benefit (DB) schemes.

Businesses with employees who travel to the US are being warned that there is a new level of risk attached to trips to the country.

A sustained bounce-back in hiring this year remains possible but employers still have significant concerns about the strength of the economy.